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Prabhakar, Rajiv
(2013).
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0261018313483491
URL: http://csp.sagepub.com/content/early/2013/06/03/02...
Abstract
‘Asset-based welfare’ was one of the social policy innovations of the last Labour government in the UK. A recent financialization critique suggests policies such as the Child Trust Fund were aimed at creating subjects for financial markets. This paper argues that the focus on New Labour in Westminster overlooks the way that the Welsh government tried to shape asset-based welfare in different directions. This is emphasized as part of efforts to boost financial inclusion, that is the access that those on low incomes have to mainstream financial services. The Welsh government placed more weight on this alternative financial inclusion agenda by boosting progressive universalism and encouraging the delivery of assets through credit unions. Welsh efforts though were constrained by both the ideology and austerity programme imposed from the centre.
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- Item ORO ID
- 37744
- Item Type
- Journal Item
- ISSN
- 1461-703X
- Extra Information
- 21 pp.
- Keywords
- Child Trust Fund; credit unions; progressive universalism; Welsh government
- Academic Unit or School
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Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Social Sciences and Global Studies > Economics
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Social Sciences and Global Studies
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) - Research Group
- Innovation, Knowledge & Development research centre (IKD)
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- © 2013 The Authors
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- Rajiv Prabhakar