would focus on financial poverty: people living in households with economic resources below the level used by Eurostat (60 …% of the median in the Member State), with this being accompanied by a measure of child poverty. Social investment in … not a complete substitute for social spending. The European countries which perform best in terms of reducing poverty tend …

inequality and increased poverty. We provide an early assessment of whether (and to what extent) this is the case. More …

Using counterfactual microsimulations, Shapley decompositions of time change in inequality and poverty indices make it … depth of poverty would have increased under the first New Labour government, had important reforms like the extensions of … income support and tax credits not been implemented. These reforms have also contributed to substantially reduce poverty …

counterfactual simulations. We start by decomposing changes in inequality/poverty indices into three contributions: reforms of the …

household incomes and in the prevention of child poverty across Europe. In one group of countries family benefits appear to have … a significant effect on the protection of children from financial poverty. The UK and the Netherlands are both members … explain the very different level of child poverty in the two countries. We also explore the effect of “swapping” child benefit …

There is no international consensus on what poverty is and how it should be measured. The most commonly used poverty … indicator, income level, is limited as it ignores the multidimensional character of poverty. Because the choice of an indicator …, the choice of a poverty indicator is important. It sets priorities for policies and programs and determines outcomes of …

Slower growth and higher inflation can worsen poverty. By implication, maintaining macroeconomic stability is necessary … to reduce poverty. When a typical aggregate demand (AD) policy for stabilization is not effective, however, its impact on … poverty could be devastating as incomes of the poor typically decline with falling output. In this study, I argue that when …

equilibrium (CGE) model to analyze the possible poverty and distributional effects of the removal of QR and the reduction in … headcount poverty index, both the poverty gap and the squared poverty gap indices increase. The Gini coefficient increases as … inputs in the sector, lower factor prices in agriculture, and lower factor incomes for these households. Thus, poverty in …