recent economic research on the welfare state and anti-poverty policy in rich countries, and explore their implications. We … begin with the conceptualisation and measurement of poverty, before sketching out some core features and approaches to the … welfare state and anti-poverty policies. We then focus on the central plank of the modern welfare state's efforts to address …

Recent studies find in-work poverty to be a pan-European phenomenon. Yet in-work poverty has come to the fore as a … alleviating poverty among workers, both the policy options and constraints facing Continental European policymakers are … impact on in-work poverty but in settings where wages are compressed, as in Belgium, a severe trade-off between coverage and …