. The paper underscores the principles of the poverty focus of social assistance and presents an overview of existence … evidence of first- and second-order effects of social assistance, particularly in the domains of poverty, education, health and …

Programs to fight poverty aim at allowing individuals to support themselves ex-post, when they are not part of the …

results are interpreted in terms of poverty and inequality statistics while closely looking into the assumptions of the … microsimulation models. In the first scenario a modest level of guaranteed minimum income is feasible, decreasing both poverty and … unrealistically high tax rates, especially for Italy. The impact on poverty and inequality of the HNIT scheme is markedly higher for …