We provide evidence of the relative cost-effectiveness of different types of policy instrument in reducing poverty or …-applied policy instruments with a direct effect on household income: child benefits, minimum income components of social assistance … find that the assessment of the most cost effective instrument may depend on the measure of poverty used and the direction …

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 … particular the position of beneficiaries in the household income distribution and the offsetting effects on household income of …

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 …