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This report covers CASE’s activities duringthe calendar year 2 006 (with financialand related information for the 2 005-06academic year). This is the ninth yearof the Centre’s core funding from theCouncil, which will end in December2007. The Centre is currently exploringalternative ways of...
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The paper analyses changes in poverty in Britain since 1997. A povertylevel of 60 percent of median equivalised income … Survey, on which government estimatesof Households Below Average Income are based. There was a smallreduction in poverty … poverty are likely to be small. In order to keep on tracktowards the goal of halving child poverty by 2010, further …
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In July 2000, the Taipei City Government launched an anti-poverty program,Taipei Family Development Accounts, which …
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Poverty.[...] …
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revealspecific quantiles, particularly those around the poverty line which are mostsusceptible to be vulnerable to shocks to the …
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setting out the extent of the problem ofchild poverty, the causes are discussed and Britain's problem is set ininternational … perspective. The impact on child poverty of policiesdesigned to raise incomes directly is analysed using micro …-simulationmodelling. A major emphasis of current policy is on the promotion ofpaid work, and we explore the potential for poverty reduction …
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Poverty Street draws on evidence from twelve of the most disadvantagedneighbourhoods in England and Wales, using Census …
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, Hackney and Newham. The East Endhas the biggest concentration of poverty in the capital. It lies at the heart of theThames …
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[...]The research on which this report is based used both qualitative and quantitativemethods. In the first phase, a small number of semi-structured interviews were carriedout with people who were juggling work and family responsibilities, and who feltunder both time and income pressure. These...
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Following the implementation of the government’s fuel poverty strategy in 2001, Warm Front is expected to make a …’s target of eliminating fuel poverty among vulnerable households by 2010, based largely on the recommendations in a recent … and fuel poverty.[...] …
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