The paper analyses changes in poverty in Britain since 1997. A povertylevel of 60 percent of median equivalised income … Survey, on which government estimatesof Households Below Average Income are based. There was a smallreduction in poverty … poverty are likely to be small. In order to keep on tracktowards the goal of halving child poverty by 2010, further …

Families with disabled children are susceptible to poverty because low incomeis compounded by high costs. Combing … reportoutlines issues that must be addressed if reduce poverty amongst disabledchildren is to be reduced.[...] …

measured by the Gini coeffcient isconstant, dening the poverty line as a fraction of a central tendency of theliving standard … distribution restricts the evolution of the poverty measuresto be stable... …

Using counterfactual microsimulations, Shapley decompositions of time change in inequalityand poverty indices make it … of poverty would have increased under the firstNew Labour government, had important reforms like the extensions of income … support andtax credits not been implemented. These reforms have also contributed to substantiallyreduce poverty among families …

counterfactual simulations. We start by decomposingchanges in inequality/poverty indices into three contributions: reforms of the tax …

In July 2000, the Taipei City Government launched an anti-poverty program,Taipei Family Development Accounts, which …