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A change of direction for family policy in Italy: some reflections on the general family allowance (GFA)
We present and discuss the General Family Allowance (GFA), in Italian: Assegno Unico Universale, a measure that the Italian Government and Parliament have put in place from March 2022 addressing the persistent low fertility in Italy. The GFA modernizes monetary transfers in favor of families with ch...
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author | Dalla-Zuanna, Gianpiero McDonald, Peter F. |
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description | We present and discuss the General Family Allowance (GFA), in Italian: Assegno Unico Universale, a measure that the Italian Government and Parliament have put in place from March 2022 addressing the persistent low fertility in Italy. The GFA modernizes monetary transfers in favor of families with children in Italy, covering large groups of families that were previously excluded from full benefits. Even if the aim of the GFA is to support fertility rather than to alleviate child poverty, it is likely that this measure will help to reduce poverty, especially for families with children previously excluded from significant cash contributions, such as recently resident foreigners and the unemployed. In addition, as GFA amounts are modest for wealthier couples, its potential effect on fertility—if there will be any—should be limited to couples with modest incomes. The GFA is also compared with the different systems of monetary transfers in favor of families with children of developed countries. |
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spelling | pubmed-102020582023-05-23 A change of direction for family policy in Italy: some reflections on the general family allowance (GFA) Dalla-Zuanna, Gianpiero McDonald, Peter F. Genus Original Article We present and discuss the General Family Allowance (GFA), in Italian: Assegno Unico Universale, a measure that the Italian Government and Parliament have put in place from March 2022 addressing the persistent low fertility in Italy. The GFA modernizes monetary transfers in favor of families with children in Italy, covering large groups of families that were previously excluded from full benefits. Even if the aim of the GFA is to support fertility rather than to alleviate child poverty, it is likely that this measure will help to reduce poverty, especially for families with children previously excluded from significant cash contributions, such as recently resident foreigners and the unemployed. In addition, as GFA amounts are modest for wealthier couples, its potential effect on fertility—if there will be any—should be limited to couples with modest incomes. The GFA is also compared with the different systems of monetary transfers in favor of families with children of developed countries. Springer International Publishing 2023-05-22 2023 /pmc/articles/PMC10202058/ /pubmed/37251212 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s41118-023-00193-x Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Original Article Dalla-Zuanna, Gianpiero McDonald, Peter F. A change of direction for family policy in Italy: some reflections on the general family allowance (GFA) |
title | A change of direction for family policy in Italy: some reflections on the general family allowance (GFA) |
title_full | A change of direction for family policy in Italy: some reflections on the general family allowance (GFA) |
title_fullStr | A change of direction for family policy in Italy: some reflections on the general family allowance (GFA) |
title_full_unstemmed | A change of direction for family policy in Italy: some reflections on the general family allowance (GFA) |
title_short | A change of direction for family policy in Italy: some reflections on the general family allowance (GFA) |
title_sort | change of direction for family policy in italy: some reflections on the general family allowance (gfa) |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10202058/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37251212 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s41118-023-00193-x |
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