welfare and changing living standards -- Confronting the challenges of independence -- Estimating poverty and inequality …, poverty and distribution in the early twenty-first century -- Government policy interventions -- What have we learned …Examines changes in living standards across the ten countries of Southeast Asia (Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore …

children as well as to reduce child poverty. In this study the authors critically investigate this assertion by simulating a … states we estimate the impact on poverty and on the government budget using the European microsimulation model EUROMOD. The … findings suggest that to achieve significant poverty reductions among young children, both additional childcare slots and …