This paper examines the effects of recent welfare reforms in the US and UK on the well-being of children in low …-income families, looking specifically at the effects on poverty, family expenditures, and child health and development. The paper … finds some commonalities but also some notable differences. Common to both countries is a sizable reduction in child poverty …

This paper examines the impact of the transition on living standards and welfare in the five Republics of former Soviet … definition of welfare is taken, including both economic measures and capability-based indicators, reflecting the health and …-social stress. Over half the population is now living in poverty. Real wages have fallen, joblessness has increased, school …

This paper examines the effects of recent welfare reforms in the US and UK on the well-being of children in low …-income families, looking specifically at the effects on poverty, family expenditures, and child health and development. The paper … finds some commonalities but also some notable differences. Common to both countries is a sizable reduction in child poverty …

This paper is an overview of the social welfare systems of five East Asian countries, namely Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Hong … Kong and Singapore. It analyses the overall costs of welfare as well as income distribution aspects, based on both … aggregate data and a programme-by-programme review of their welfare states (presented in annex). Private welfare is introduced …

the US welfare state. One of its key goals was to move lone mothers, even those with young children, from welfare to work …. Early evidence suggests that, in concert with a strong economy, progress has been made - welfare caseloads have fallen … welfare reforms played an important role prior to 1996 and are playing an even more important role subsequent to 1996 as …

This paper analyses the shifting balance between public sector and private sector welfare provision in the United … used to classify welfare activities according to who funds them, who provides them, and who decides on the provider and …/or amount of service. It is found that shifts in the composition of welfare activity have been relatively small and gradual …

This paper investigates the overlap between employment status and poverty, drawing particular attention to the working … is undertaken using the Kyrgyz Poverty Monitoring Survey, which is the only survey to date that allows a comprehensive … analysis of poverty and labor market outcomes in the Kyrgyz Republic. The period under investigation covers the years 1997 …

This paper discusses the contribution made by American social scientists to the study of poverty in the past twenty … five years. It has three parts. The first concentrates on the measurement of poverty and the fact that the US poverty line … remained unchanged in that period despite its increasingly important deficiencies. Proposals to produce a revised poverty line …

, school and local area when growing up, on earnings capacity and poverty risk once they reach adulthood. …