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 …

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 …

poverty ordering of the countries. …

transformations of their economies. The authors test the assumptions that the economic transitions would increase poverty and income … poverty rates of individuals increased only slightly. A simulation of the effects of adding the informal economy on the income …

ways in which social welfare systems operate in different states. Evidence of inequality and poverty is considered for … poverty. …

This paper compares poverty in the U.K. with 19 other countries. It is of particular interest because it uses the third …. The main finding of this paper is that the overall pre-transfer poverty rate for the U.K. is the fifth highest our of the … security benefits is to reduce the poverty rate but leaves the U.K. with the third highest, next only to the U.S. and Russia …