Canada. According to the after-tax LICO, now the most widely reported measure of low income or poverty, the national poverty …/M) of National Child Benefit (NCB) rules, isolating the impact of these rules on low-income or poverty rates and gaps in … 4.6 per cent between 1996 and 1999 because of the introduction of the NCBS. The drop in the poverty gap was even greater …

Income Supplement in 1968 and the reduction in poverty after 1973 to the maturing of the Canada/Quebec Pension Plan regimes … best job in boosting the income levels of seniors above the poverty line. In his view, Canada has done a remarkable job in … has in fact been the reduction of poverty among senior citizens. According to Osberg, the poverty rate, defined with the …

income security system. He concludes that on the whole the emerging post-welfare state will better serve Canada's evolving …

distributional changes that have occurred in Canada in the 1990s as well as useful comparative perspectives both in terms of trends … income in Canada during the 1990s. …

poverty. The report finds that China has made substantial progress in economic development since economic reform started in … in the incidence of poverty. Productivity performance has not been uniform across the agricultural and industrial sectors …, but both have contributed to aggregate growth and poverty reduction. Unfortunately economic reform has also brought …

The United Nations has set as a goal for the world community the halving of the rate of poverty between 1990 and 2015 …. Previous literature and empirical work provides a strong consensus that growth reduces poverty, and several recent studies have … poverty. But in dynamic economies most economic growth comes from productivity growth, and few studies have tested the …

This paper develops an Index of Economic Well-being (IEWB) for the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia …

countries by 2030, including Canada. This report takes an in-depth look at what the SDGs could mean for Canada, providing a … concise overview of the report in the eight areas it covers: poverty, education, employment and inequality, energy, the … environment, infrastructure, governance and international cooperation in Canada. Key themes discussed include global and national …

In this chapter, Miles Corak provides a useful overview of the state of knowledge on the issue of child poverty and … and it may be that the best argument for reducing child poverty and related programs is based on the actual and present …