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 …

developed. Subsequently, on the basis of LIS data the effectiveness and efficiency in reducing poverty through social assistance …

reducing poverty through social assistance payments are calculated using several measures of poverty for five selected EU … poverty alleviation, the results provide some evidence that extremely centralised systems are more effective with regard to …

developed. Subsequently, on the basis of LIS data the effectiveness and efficiency in reducing poverty through social assistance …

reducing poverty through social assistance payments are calculated using several measures of poverty for five selected EU … poverty alleviation, the results provide some evidence that extremely centralised systems are more effective with regard to …

, poverty rates have stagnated and in some countries even increased. In the welfare state literature, it has been argued that … these disappointing poverty trends may be partly attributable to the reforming of traditional welfare state programmes into … for a linkage between stagnating or increasing poverty trends and shifts in expenditures to new welfare state programmes …

We assess the impact of redistributive policy on child poverty across 29 European welfare states, using EU SILC 2005 … children. Pensions are generally neglected in analyses on child poverty, but are relevant through the presence of two …

Child poverty increased dramatically during the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2020 alone, the number of children suffering from … poverty in the EU increased by 19 percent, or close to 1 million. Left unaddressed, this would not only affect individuals … poverty and mitigate the long-term impact of poverty. Reducing the number of children affected by poverty can be achieved by …

developed. Subsequently, on the basis of LIS data the effectiveness and efficiency in reducing poverty through social assistance …