Abstract:

Poverty is a multi-dimensional problem consisting of several causes and results. It requires various approaches and colloboration for the solution as well. Also poverty has been an important problem in Turkey. However, no important policy was able to be developed to terminate or decrease poverty. Having no coordination between the institutions contending with poverty restricts the policies efficiency in use as well. It has been stated that the public sector has been allocating an important portion of resources despite all these problems. The policy-making process consists of such phases as agenda-setting, policy formulation, policy design, policy implementation and policy evaluation. The effectiveness of a public policy depends on the proper production of the policy that goes through these phases. The purpose of this study was to examine public policies aimed at preventing poverty are being identified and applied regardless of poverty. Also it was to appoint public policies should take appropriate measures to the situation of increasing poverty day by day. In this study, it was discussed to need new social and cultural policies because of actual public policies are not sufficient to prevent poverty and they are often indexed to the economy. Also in this study; public policies' characteristics were examined to prevent poverty and put forwarded erroneous applications in this topic

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