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 …

children. Pensions are generally neglected in analyses on child poverty, but are relevant through the presence of two …We assess the impact of redistributive policy on child poverty across 29 European welfare states, using EU SILC 2005 …, partially offsetting, forces. Increased pension spending weakens the relative income position of children, but pensions also …

children in the income distributions, and to calculate child poverty prevalence, to assess how far children receive transfers … transfers to younger children has different poverty reduction effects between countries - depending on age composition and co … from state social protection systems compared to other agegroups. The results show that children are disproportionately …

regions. The regional minimum income schemes (RMI) have been a fundamental measure to fight poverty in Spain from the regional …The "Minimum Vital Income" (IMV) constitutes a novelty in the panorama for fighting poverty by guaranteeing minimum … incomes after the COVID-19 crisis. This work simulates the distributional and poverty effects of the IMV introduction across …

This paper generates multidimensional poverty profiles for women and children over a ten-year period from 1993 to 2003 …. Data from the national Demographic and Health Survey are used to improve measurement of poverty in Kenya in four ways … measurement of multidimensional poverty based on the CWI and health status. Third, stochastic dominance approaches are used to …

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 …

How should relative poverty be defined and measured in a European Union where there are substantial variations in … suggests that Europe-wide comparisons are more important to the perception of poverty than the convention of national relative … poverty lines would have led us to expect. Even relative poverty is more prevalent in the new low-income (eastern) countries …

I address four topics: how our capacities to monitor poverty in Europe have improved substantially over recent decades …; how progress on EU poverty reduction has been disappointing and why this has been; conceptual and measurement issues; and … the future direction of EU-level anti-poverty actions. I follow in the footsteps of a giant - my perspectives are …

The persistent at-risk-of-poverty rate is one of the EU's 11 primary indicators of social inclusion but it has received … little attention compared to the current at-risk-of-poverty rate. Using the 2008 EU Statistics on Income and Living … Conditions (EU-SILC) database, we compare persistent income poverty rates across European nations and examine differences in …

The European Union's Lisbon strategy goal of tackling poverty was a notable failure, while the Europe 2020 strategy …'s poverty target is out of reach. Both strategies were based on variants of the 'at risk of poverty' indicator, which has an … cointegration evidence, that the 'at risk of poverty' indicator essentially measures income inequality, not poverty. Our …