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 …

This study attempts to introduce a new method to measure relative income poverty. The aim is to find a solution which … will combine information both on the depth of poverty and the quantity of the poor, i.e. the number of people living in … poverty. Furthermore, a yardstick is sought which would be relatively simple and easy to understand, as these properties would …

poverty. The choices that must be made are clarified, and a set of six principles to serve as a guide for public policy are … stated. The second objective is to take stock of child poverty and changes in child poverty in the majority of OECD countries … formulate a number of suggestions for the setting of credible targets for the elimination of child poverty in the rich countries …

's program to reduce child poverty. While best practices may be identified, each nation must create its own set of mutually … poverty. …

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 …

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 …

We analyze the impact of the state on the incidence of poverty in the working-age population of 14 advanced capitalist … democracies between 1970 and 1997 using an unbalanced panel design. We utilize poverty measures based on micro-level data from the … that economic factors including de-industrialization and unemployment largely explain pre-tax, pre-transfer poverty rates …

nations. These data also allow estimates of the effects of social transfers that reduce poverty amongst all families with …-income poverty rates and greater disposable income poverty rates than do children in native-born families by a factor of about 2 to 1 … migrant families in France and Sweden are in poverty; however, after transfers, these rates are more than halved in these …

In this paper I assess the extent to which welfare states reduce poverty among single mothers and all mothers. I focus … Study, I show how tax and transfer systems and employment supports in nine Western nations affect the poverty rates of … allow most single mothers to form autonomous households that escape poverty. I conclude by discussing how my findings speak …

The starting point in the paper is the relative concept of poverty. We will study how our picture of poverty will … change if we accept a very relative concept of poverty. The first problem we encountered was the selection of the benchmark …. A couple of alternative ways to conduct relativizations were selected. First, we applied the conventional poverty …