Household debt has increased significantly since the second half of the 20th century, making it one of the cornerstones … Belgium, using data from four waves of the Eurosystem Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS). Our results are … of household financial behaviour. It is, however, necessary to monitor that indebtedness does not spiral out of control …

The social benefit of debt counseling is undoubted. Those seeking advice are empowered to claim their consumer rights … national budget. It also benefits creditors financially by avoiding private insolvency. In order to strengthen debt counselors …, clear and immediate political action is required. One step should be the introduction of a legal right to debt counselling …

This paper documents levels and changes in child poverty rates in 12 OECD countries using data from the Luxembourg … the relative role of income transfers from the state in determining the magnitude and direction of change in child poverty … child poverty, changes in child poverty, and the impact of public policy in North America and Europe. …

This paper analyses the relationship between growth patterns, poverty, and inequality in Brazil during its … Brazilian National Household Survey covering the period 1995-2004. …

, 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? …

poverty. The choices that must be made are clarified, and a set of six principles to serve as a guide for public policy are … stated. The second objective is to take stock of child poverty and changes in child poverty in the majority of OECD countries … formulate a number of suggestions for the setting of credible targets for the elimination of child poverty in the rich countries …

The study presents recent global evidence on the transformation of economic growth to poverty reduction in developing …-specific data are analysed for the US$1.25 and US$2.50 level poverty headcount ratios using the most recent World Bank data. The … study finds that on average income growth has been the major driving force behind both the declines and increases in poverty …

medium term the impact of the debt on poverty is not very harmful, in the longer run it has a significant negative impact …. For the Indian states we find that government investment in the social sector is extremely important to reduce poverty …, but the government's debt burden is actually stopping several states from attaining the MDG targets. Although, in the …

sex in order to analyze the gender of debt and its interplay with caste and poverty, based on descriptive statistics and … household debt. On a theoretical level, these results highlight the gendered earmarking of debt and credit: male and female …, likely to strengthen the association between debt and poverty for women, and in particular to exacerbate female …

children in the income distributions, and to calculate child poverty prevalence, to assess how far children receive transfers … concentrated in the lower quintiles and have higher child poverty prevalence than for adults, but receive lower social protection … both universal and targeted, anti-poverty, outcomes. Different versions of simple static and purely arithmetic micro …