This article is concerned with enterprise policy and its effectiveness when applied to those experiencing social exclusion through unemployment and poverty. In particular, the article focuses on the introduction of the New Enterprise Allowance Scheme designed to support the transition from unemployment to enterprise, and it explores the extent to which knowledge about previous similar schemes has been used to inform this. Findings suggest that lessons learned from previous schemes have had little impact on decisions made in recent years. Scholarly evidence of and knowledge about the relationships between social exclusion, poverty and enterprise are not referenced and this suggests that policy understanding of the connection between social exclusion, unemployment and enterprise has developed little in the time period studied.

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贫困、社会排斥和企业政策：40 年来英国政策有效性的研究

本文关注的是企业政策及其适用于因失业和贫困而遭受社会排斥的人的有效性。特别是，本文重点介绍了旨在支持从失业到企业过渡的新企业津贴计划，并探讨了在多大程度上使用了有关以前类似计划的知识来提供信息。调查结果表明，从以前的计划中吸取的教训对近年来做出的决策几乎没有影响。没有参考关于社会排斥、贫困和企业之间关系的学术证据和知识，这表明在研究的时间段内，对社会排斥、失业和企业之间联系的政策理解几乎没有发展。