The European Union coordinates and encourages Member State actions to combat poverty, and to reform their social … in poverty reduction than others. What can explain these variations in effectiveness? This paper analyses the … effectiveness of welfare state policies and especially social transfers in EU-countries in alleviating poverty. To indicate whether …

Poverty alleviation is an important policy objective in developed welfare states. This paper analyzes the effect of … social transfer policies on poverty. A vast literature claims that high social effort goes along with low poverty levels … find quite a strong negative relationship between the level of public social expenditure and poverty among 28 OECD …

Poverty alleviation is an important policy objective in developed welfare states. This paper analyzes the effect of … social transfer policies on poverty. A vast literature claims that high social effort goes along with low poverty levels … find quite a strong negative relationship between the level of public social expenditure and poverty among 28 OECD …

Poverty alleviation is an important objective of European countries and of the United States. If these ‘rich’ states … offer elaborate systems of income maintenance, why is there still a considerable amount of poverty? And why are anti-poverty …-country research papers on anti-poverty policy. Two former papers analyzed the effects of social transfers on both poverty levels and …

The European Union coordinates and encourages Member State actions to combat poverty, and to reform their social … in poverty reduction than others. What can explain these variations in effectiveness? This paper analyzes the … effectiveness of social transfers in alleviating poverty. We focus on EU15 countries, but also include other OECD countries in our …

levels of income inequality or poverty among elderly people. The results appear to be robust for a wide range of econometric …