poverty and child poverty estimates in five middle-income countries (India, Mexico, South Africa, Russian Federation and Peru …There is a wide agreement among poverty research community that conventional estimates of poverty (i.e., money … overestimate total household expenditure, which results in an underestimation of poverty measured in terms of household expenditure …

the survey on fields such as the design of a minimum income scheme, the evaluation of energy poverty from a child … this survey by the Office of the High Commissioner against Child Poverty in Spain. This Office used the Spanish version of … perspective, the changing dynamics of poverty according to country of origin, or the impact of housing costs on poverty. On the …

This paper presents findings on the changing effectiveness of cash transfers and income taxes on inequality and poverty … reduction in four EU countries - the UK, Italy, Sweden and France. We use long time series (spanning four decades) to examine … relationship between the concentration of cash transfers net of direct taxes and their effectiveness in terms of reducing poverty …

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 … a small allowance - funded by a fixed budget - over a very large proportion of the population. Income differences at the …