these tax, transfer and minimum wage reforms on income inequality and poverty based on a microsimulation approach using … to substantially reduce the extent of income inequality and relative income poverty and the paper draws out how the two …

recent economic research on the welfare state and anti-poverty policy in rich countries, and explore their implications. We … begin with the conceptualisation and measurement of poverty, before sketching out some core features and approaches to the … welfare state and anti-poverty policies. We then focus on the central plank of the modern welfare state's efforts to address …