The standard poverty lines applied in empirical research tend to be problematic in terms of validity, reliability, ease … related to actual differences in the 'production of poverty' in 11 countries, as measured by the generalised budget approach … substantially higher degree of poverty than representatives of the corporatist type (Belgium, Germany, France). Poverty in the …

reducing poverty through social assistance payments are calculated using several measures of poverty for five selected EU … poverty alleviation, the results provide some evidence that extremely centralised systems are more effective with regard to …

investigated countries provide social assistance benefits above the EU near poverty threshold. Social assistance benefit levels …

allow children to escape from poverty? This is the question we try to answer in this comparative study. The objective is … therefore not so much to carry out a diagnosis of the financial poverty of children as to evaluate the effect, in terms of …

Using the notion of the poverty regime as a heuristic device, this paper examines the safety nets of several members of … enlargement of the European Union for the creation of a common safety net? Initially several dimensions of the poverty regime are … employed to compare the safety nets. Subsequently we analyze the incidence of poverty and poverty reduction for the entire …

Substantial cross-national differences in poverty alleviation are well documented, but theextent to which different …-targeted provisions and means-tested benefits reduce relative economic poverty in different institutional settings. It is shown that the … poverty alleviation across countries. The study also presents a new method for estimating the anti-poverty effects of separate …

In the EU there is growing concern about poverty among children, and among families with children. In most OECD … countries, income poverty among children now exceeds that among the elderly, who traditionally were the demographic group most … at risk of poverty (Jäntti and Danziger, 2000). However, the policy response of most industrialized countries in the past …

risks. Poverty has for several centuries been seen as a key social risk factor in these respects. Consequently, the fight … against poverty has historically been at the forefront of public health and social policy. The relation between relative … poverty rates and population health indicators is less self-evident, notwithstanding the obvious relation to the debated topic …

While all nations value low poverty, high levels of economic self-reliance, and equality of opportunity for younger … self-reliance (earned incomes), family support, and government support to avoid poverty. This paper is designed to examine … these differences in greater detail. We begin by reviewing international concepts and measures of poverty, as they relate to …

Although the poverty rates among solo mothers vary a lot between countries there is one common feature: solo mothers … perform worse in terms of financial resources compared to married or cohabiting mothers. Even in countries with low poverty …. It is interesting to ask the question why? Again referring to a cross national setting we see that poverty rates vary …