Abstract
Abstract This article provides a general overview of social protection in Greece in the framework of the southern European welfare model. The late development of the Greek welfare state is attributed to institutional and organizational particularities, closely connected with the country's political history and socio-economic development after World War II. The principal characteristics of the Greek welfare state are inadequacy, lack of uniformity and inefficiency in the benefits provided, an absence of co-ordination between individual services, centralized administrative and operating structures and disparities in coverage. A sectoral analysis reveals the system's weaknesses. Informal care is widely practised through the family, with women playing the main role. A'mixed economy of welfare' and a search for new forms of interaction between the'public' and the'private' are required, while general reforms are needed in the sector of formal care.
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