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this survey by the Office of the High Commissioner against Child Poverty in Spain. This Office used the Spanish version of … the survey on fields such as the design of a minimum income scheme, the evaluation of energy poverty from a child … perspective, the changing dynamics of poverty according to country of origin, or the impact of housing costs on poverty. On the …
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middle income countries that examined optimal approaches to reduce child poverty using universal categorical child allowances … Ghanaian households contain children, and those households contain 82 per cent of the total population, spreading the impact of … margins of the poverty line were found to be small and robustness and sensitivity tests were done to accompany simulation …
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In response to the COVID-19 pandemic two new timely poverty measures have been developed to monitor fast …-changing economic conditions for the most deprived. The Han et al. near real-time poverty measure uses responses to a global income … poverty measure, widely cited in the media, uses data from the Annual Social and Economic Supplement to the CPS and other …
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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 … degree among benefit clients and yet, the impact is insufficient to affect overall poverty, or for the benefits to achieve …
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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 … degree among benefit clients and yet, the impact is insufficient to affect overall poverty, or for the benefits to achieve …
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Lea Immel prepared this study while she was working at the Research Group Taxation and Fiscal Policy at the ifo Institute. The study was completed in September 2020 and accepted as doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It consists of four distinct empirical...
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family allowances, non-contributory child benefits and tax credits or allowances) on child poverty in Greece, Italy, Spain …The drive to reduce child poverty is of particular interest in southern Europe, where the subsidiary role of the State … in matters of family policy has implied that programmes of public assistance to poor families with children are often …
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We evaluate progress in President's Johnson's War on Poverty. We do so relative to the scientifically arbitrary but … policy relevant 20 percent baseline poverty rate he established for 1963. No existing poverty measure fully captures poverty … reductions based on the standard that President Johnson set. To fill this gap, we develop a Full-income Poverty Measure with …
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poverty in the EU over the period 1994–2008. We pay particular attention to the effects of macroeconomic environment, social … transfers that do not include pensions, exert a prominent impact on inequality and poverty. Also significant is the effect of … the GDP per capita. The impact of employment on inequality and poverty is not empirically sound. The same holds for the …
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