that balances goals of reducing poverty, encouraging employment and fiscal sustainability. Using the OECD’s Tax-Benefit and …-wage earners would make inroads into poverty and inequality while encouraging formal work. This paper accompanies and extends the …

population in concentrated settlements, separated neighbourhoods or ghettos. The majority live in poverty and face social …

Reducing poverty remains an important challenge, and the COVID-19-crisis may further reinforce social vulnerabilities …. Although it has declined lately, relative poverty remains high in international comparison and is distributed unevenly across … particularly affected. A comprehensive approach is required to ensure an effective transition out of poverty and social exclusion …

This paper analyses relative income poverty in Australia of individuals aged 15 or more, based on the HILDA Survey data …. Australia has above-average poverty rates among OECD countries, but poverty has decreased in the last 15 years. Certain groups … are more at risk than others. People living alone and lone parents are at higher risk of poverty. Old people in Australia …

-satisfaction. This paper reviews the social progress that Costa Rica has achieved and identifies reducing inequality and poverty as the … by raising their skill levels. This is the most effective way to get people out of poverty. Education is the area where … is increasing rapidly, and to close the gender gap in the labour market. The health and pension systems play a …

the Greek crisis on inequality and poverty in 2009-2014 using the micro-simulation model EUROMOD. Specifically, the paper …. Relative poverty seems to have increased in 2012, after remaining broadly unchanged in the previous two years; in 2013 it …). This pattern is more pronounced when poverty is measured against an “anchored” benchmark: the proportion of population …

Thanks to a highly developed welfare state, poverty is moderate on average in France, but – as in other countries …

Employment is pivotal to strengthening Greece’s economic recovery, increasing social welfare and redressing poverty …. A social welfare system dominated by pensions has not been able to prevent a steep hike in poverty among children and …, accompanied by support programmes for jobseekers, will provide a reliable safety net and reduce poverty. This Working Paper …

Income inequality and relative poverty in the United States are among the highest in the OECD and have substantially … of growth. The present paper analyses the causes of US income inequality and relative poverty in an OECD context … poverty through better targeting of the truly needy while reducing administrative complexity. …