poverty. The choices that must be made are clarified, and a set of six principles to serve as a guide for public policy are … stated. The second objective is to take stock of child poverty and changes in child poverty in the majority of OECD countries … formulate a number of suggestions for the setting of credible targets for the elimination of child poverty in the rich countries …

This paper documents levels and changes in child poverty rates in 12 OECD countries using data from the Luxembourg … the relative role of income transfers from the state in determining the magnitude and direction of change in child poverty … child poverty, changes in child poverty, and the impact of public policy in North America and Europe. …

, and on the child poverty rate. A static microsimulation model specifically designed for the purposes of comparative fiscal … them? And third, what impact do measures of public resources for children have on child poverty rates? …

. The most severe problem is selection bias as a result of selective sorting into neighbourhoods. This paper argues that in …

immigrants as for the entire population, and there is more generational mobility among immigrants in Canada than in the United …

The paper proposes and applies statistical tests for poverty dominance that check for whether poverty comparisons can … be made robustly over ranges of poverty lines and classes of poverty indices. This helps provide both normative and … statistical confidence in establishing poverty rankings across distributions. The tests, which can take into account the complex …

This paper analyzes transitions into and out-of Social Assistance in Canada. We estimate a dynamic Probit model … differences in social assistance participation. The empirical results indicate that a “welfare trap” does exist in Canada, but the …

, stable, and non-means-tested benefit. Its main aims are to mitigate poverty and subsequently promote self …