Welfare systems across the OECD face many combined challenges, with rising inequality, demographic changes and environmental crises likely to drive up welfare demand in the coming decades. Economic growth is no longer a sustainable solution to these problems. It is therefore imperative that we consider how welfare systems will cope with these challenges in the absence of economic growth. We review the literature tackling this complex problem. We identify five interconnected dilemmas for a post-growth welfare system: 1) how to maintain funding for the welfare system in a non-growing economy; 2) how to manage the increasing relative costs of welfare; 3) how to overcome structural and behavioural growth dependencies within the welfare system; 4) how to manage increasing need on a finite planet; and 5) how to overcome political barriers to the transformation of the welfare state. There is now need for further research investigating the macro-economic dynamics of post-growth welfare systems; trialling preventative, relational, low-resource models of welfare provision; and seeking to better understand political barriers to a post-growth welfare transition. We also make the case for considering post-growth welfare studies as a field in its own right, with the aim of improving coherence and cross-fertilisation between disciplines.

经合组织的福利体系面临许多综合挑战，不平等加剧，人口变化和环境危机可能会在未来几十年推动福利需求。经济增长不再是解决这些问题的可持续解决方案。因此，我们必须考虑在没有经济增长的情况下，福利制度将如何应对这些挑战。我们回顾解决这个复杂问题的文献。对于成长后的福利体系，我们确定了五个相互联系的难题：1）如何在非增长型经济中为福利体系维持资金；2）如何管理不断增加的福利相对成本；3）如何克服福利系统中结构和行为增长的依赖性；4）如何处理有限星球上不断增长的需求；5）如何克服福利国家转型的政治障碍。现在需要进行进一步的研究，以调查增长后福利系统的宏观经济动态；试行预防性，关系性，资源贫乏的福利提供模式；并寻求更好地理解增长后福利过渡的政治障碍。我们也考虑将成长后的福利研究本身视为一个领域，以期提高学科之间的连贯性和相互促进。