This article introduces fiscal impoverishment as a novel framework for comparative poverty research. We invert standard … analyses of welfare state policy and household poverty by focusing not on poverty alleviation but poverty creation and … finance the public sector serve to push households (further) into poverty. We estimate that across rich democracies on average …

Children of single mothers face higher rates of poverty than children in two-parent households in practically every … poverty and, as a result, little consensus on the best way to address poverty among these children. Explanations include both … poverty. Further, while the effects of family allowance spending are similar for children in both single mother and two parent …

lives of children and families and how governments respond to economic crises. We calculate child poverty rates before and … examine how children’s family structure affected their chances of living in poverty. We find large variations in child poverty … changes in child poverty. Within countries, we find that children in married families have the lowest risk of poverty, except …

Using 1999-2001 Luxembourg Income Study data, we examine cross-national patterns of age-specific poverty rates …. Relative to 12 Western countries, Taiwan has a moderate child poverty rate but a much higher elderly poverty rate, leading to … the largest elder-child poverty gap. We show that Taiwan significantly differs from the other countries in three factors …

In the Western countries poverty has increased along with the resurgence of low-income targeting and the increased … by examining the extent to which social benefits distribute income at levels necessary to escape poverty. The empirical … latter half of the nineties. In most countries, social assistance fails to provide income above the poverty threshold …

as a whole and three (mutually exclusive and exhaustive) sub-groups: children (and their families); elders; and childless …

reduction of child poverty circa 2000. Child maintenance made a comparatively small contribution to the relief of child poverty … reduction in child poverty. The LIS analysis compares the prevalence and characteristics of lone parents, explores the … proportion of families with children receiving child maintenance, and the contribution that it made to their income and the …