recent economic research on the welfare state and anti-poverty policy in rich countries, and explore their implications. We … welfare state and anti-poverty policies. We then focus on the central plank of the modern welfare state's efforts to address … discuss the welfare state and anti-poverty policy in the context of the economic crisis which began in 2007-8, and the …

diverges from annual redistribution in welfare states of different types. Exploiting panel data from the Cross … welfare states like Germany that are assumed to engage in a high level of redistribution actually achieve relatively less … between individuals. The results suggest that, in welfare states with aging populations, we might expect growing annual …