Minimum Income (MI) schemes are essential to alleviate poverty and guarantee a last-resort safety net to households … with insufficient resources. Assessing the effectiveness of MI schemes in poverty reduction is challenging. Studies based … their degree of coverage and adequacy, their poverty-alleviating effects and their overall cost. Finally, we explore the …

There has not been much progress on the poverty front in Europe over recent decades, at least if we take it as a …. Some argue that adequate poverty relief is simply too expensive or that it would put too much of a redistributive burden on … floors and thus out-of-work benefit levels are inexorably under pressure, making poverty relief both harder to achieve and …

would focus on financial poverty: people living in households with economic resources below the level used by Eurostat (60 …% of the median in the Member State), with this being accompanied by a measure of child poverty. Social investment in … is not a complete substitute for social spending. The European countries which perform best in terms of reducing poverty …