He argues that entitlement programs need fundamental restructuring in order to strengthen incentives for work and productivity.

Incentives for work have, therefore, suffered.

It emphasised the need for economic/ political freedom and self-interest in order to provide incentives for work, saving and investment.

The economy is at a very dangerous stage: The old administrative system of management is being destroyed, but new incentives for work under free-market conditions have not been created yet.

Strengthening the incentive for work in the 1990's, by expanding the earned-income tax credit and placing time limits on welfare use - in conjunction with tight labor markets - reduced poverty.

Britain encouraged immigration of Indians and Chinese to British Burma, and such incentives for work opportunities and enterprise and for accumulating wealth attracted many Chinese.

As chairman of the White House Empowerment Task Force, I have promoted the development of an asset-based welfare strategy that provides new incentives for work, entrepreneurship and home ownership.

"The best that we can hope for is that we will begin to set a set of incentives for work, for family, for local control, for responsibility and for accountability."

In the face of widespread demands for new requirements that would force welfare recipients to find jobs or lose benefits, administration aides described the President's proposal as one step toward providing new incentives for work.

By contrast, the current proposals, from both Republicans and from President Clinton, rely primarily on tax credits that would do nothing to lower rates in ways that might provide greater incentives for work and savings.

The keys to higher employment levels and sustainable growth lie in sound public finances, a dynamic private sector, the completion of the single market, a real European research area and incentives for work, skill and innovation.

Mr. Pataki and his aides contend that the cuts would be offset by allowing people to keep up to $1,080 a month from their salaries without deducting any portion of their welfare grants, thus providing an incentive for work.

No one denies that there is some economic and political sense in the basic premise of supply-side philosophy - the idea that reducing marginal tax rates creates incentives for work, savings and investment and thereby improves the nation's growth potential.

A Central Theme In recent interviews, Mr. Cuomo and his top social services advisers have depicted the tax credit as a central component of the Governor's efforts to reshape New York's welfare system so that it provides greater incentives for work.

Yesterday, both men were all smiles, and Mr. Clinton doled out a bit of good news for the Governor, announcing a waiver from Federal welfare rules that will let New York proceed with experiments intended to provide new incentives for work and job training.

Disagreement Over Remedy Although there is general agreement among civil rights groups and advocates of new welfare legislation that the current system provides few incentives for work and discourages people from leaving the welfare rolls, there is considerable disagreement over how best to remedy the situation.