different components of household income and other resources on child deep-poverty rates to examine the role of the market and …The paper documents child poverty levels and trends using both relative ('deep') and absolute ('extreme') measures in … poverty reduction. Overall, middle-income nations have witnessed continuous reductions in their extreme child poverty rates …

Little is known about the effectiveness of means-tested benefits in Bulgaria. Using individual and household level data … reach a very small proportion of the households with incomes below a relative poverty line. Furthermore, the transfers are … characterized with very high non-take up and inclusion of non-entitled or non-poor recipients. Poverty rates decrease by a small …

Little is known about the effectiveness of means-tested benefits in Bulgaria. Using individual and household level data … a very small proportion of the households with incomes below a relative poverty line. Furthermore, the transfers are … characterized with very high non-take up and inclusion of non-entitled or non-poor recipients. Poverty rates decrease by a small …

We re-explore Able-Smith and Townsend's landmark study of poverty in early post WW2 Britain. They found a large … increase in poverty between 1953-4 and 1960, a period of relatively strong economic growth. Our re-examination is a first … exploitation of the newly-digitised Board of Trade Household Expenditure Survey data set for 1953/4. Able-Smith and Townsend used …

always significant: household composition, partly reflecting economies of scale in consumption and emissions in larger … variation within income groups and household types. We also compute the distribution of emissions derived from the consumption … disparities between household types. To implement personal carbon allowances, further research will be needed into the carbon …

poverty in Britain is partly due to the success of government policy in generating economic growth. Apart from ignoring the … argument that absolute poverty is not a meaningful idea, this apology for the failure of government to meet poverty targets … also misses wider problems embedded in recent trends in the household income distribution. For example, inequality measures …