We provide evidence of the relative cost-effectiveness of different types of policy instrument in reducing poverty or … find that the assessment of the most cost effective instrument may depend on the measure of poverty used and the direction … and scale of the change. Nevertheless, our results indicate that the options that reduce poverty most cost-effectively in …

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 …

The paper analyses changes in poverty in Britain since 1997. A poverty level of 60 percent of median equivalised income … Survey, on which government estimates of Households Below Average Income are based. There was a small reduction in poverty … overall and a larger proportionate fall in child poverty. This fall was attributable in part to increased employment and in …