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 …

headline indicators for income inequality and risk of poverty using EUROMOD and discuss explanations for differences between …-benefit system ; poverty ; inequality …

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 …

The new Labour Government in Britain has made the reduction of child poverty one of its central objectives. This paper … setting out the extent of the problem of child poverty, the causes are discussed and Britain's problem is set in international … perspective. The impact on child poverty of policies designed to raise incomes directly is analysed using micro …

, and on the child poverty rate. A static microsimulation model specifically designed for the purposes of comparative fiscal … them? And third, what impact do measures of public resources for children have on child poverty rates? …