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 …

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 …

poverty. Using the Luxembourg Income Study, we conduct a multilevel analysis of working-aged adult poverty across 18 affluent … Western democracies. Our index of welfare generosity has a negative effect on poverty net of individual characteristics and … structural context. For each standard deviation increase in welfare generosity, the odds of poverty decline by a factor of 2 …

This paper explores poverty trends in Mexico during the 1990's using three different definitions of poverty. The paper … then uses poverty convergence analysis to explore the pre-crisis (1992-1994), the crisis (1994-1996), and the recovery … periods (1996-1998). Finally, the paper incorporates a regional analysis in order to examine these poverty effects in greater …

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 …

poverty with a multi-level analysis across 18 affluent democracies. Although single mothers are disproportionately poor in all … countries, there is even more cross-national variation in single mother poverty than for poverty among the overall population …. By far, the U.S. has the highest rate of poverty among single mothers. The analyses show that single mother poverty is a …

This paper uses data from the Luxembourg Income Study to analyse cross-national and cross-temporal poverty risks in … welfare state efforts, at the beginning of the 21st century the question of poverty is still highly relevant. It remains today … poverty risks have tended to increase from the early 1980s to the present day. We also show that the cross-national variation …

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