them? And third, what impact do measures of public resources for children have on child poverty rates? -- poverty …The objective of this paper is to analyze the impact of fiscal policy on the economic resources available to children …, and on the child poverty rate. A static microsimulation model specifically designed for the purposes of comparative fiscal …

I address four topics: how our capacities to monitor poverty in Europe have improved substantially over recent decades …; how progress on EU poverty reduction has been disappointing and why this has been; conceptual and measurement issues; and … the future direction of EU-level anti-poverty actions. I follow in the footsteps of a giant - my perspectives are …

The current poverty rate and the persistent poverty rate are both included in the EU's portfolio of primary indicators … drawing on empirical analysis of EU-SILC and ECHP data. Using a prototypical model of poverty dynamics, we explain how the … near-linear relationship arises and show how the model can be used to predict persistent poverty rates from current poverty …

adult children or with other adults have kept poverty rates among the increasing number of elderly in urban China from … exceeding those among adults. In contrast, relative poverty rates are somewhat higher among children than among the entire urban …This paper presents several arguments for applying a relative poverty line to urban China. For example between 2002 and …

We explore the impact of authorization on the poverty exposure of households headed by undocumented immigrants. The … the likelihood of life in poverty of households headed by eligible individuals by 38 percent, hinting at the gains from …

data. While native children face yearly poverty risks of less than 10 percent in all three countries and for all years … investigated the increasing proportion of immigrant children with an origin in middle and low income countries have poverty risks …Immigrant and native child poverty in Denmark, Norway and Sweden 1993 to 2001 is investigated using large sets of panel …

This paper takes a fresh look at child poverty at the neighbourhood level in the three metropolitan regions of Sweden … using unique data for 1990, 1996 and 2002. We find that the number of neighbourhoods with high child poverty rates is much … larger in 2002 than in 1990, but also that most poor children in the three regions live outside poor neighbourhoods. A …

This paper analyzes child poverty in Bangladesh and China during periods of rapid economic growth in both countries. It … compares the extent as well as profile of child poverty in both countries. Comparisons on the extent of child poverty, over … time and across countries, are made using a decomposition framework attributing child poverty differences to differences in …

child poverty, changes in child poverty, and the impact of public policy in North America and Europe. -- poverty ; children …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 …