Since 2000, Zimbabwe has been under some pressure to provide more fully for its children. It is not clear whether child … poverty has worsened, although AIDS, drought, and economic mismanagement have all compromised poverty reduction. In any case …, child poverty has come under increased scrutiny, in part because of the Millennium Development Goals and the growing …

conditions of the elderly which can help targeting resources in the coming years to the more needy groups. Children are another … potentially vulnerable group of the population: their poverty can affect human capital accumulation and have long lasting effects … document that the poverty rates of these two age groups with respect to the other components of the population differ …

households without children, while the latter has operational constraints and competing goals, diluting its short-term poverty …We use a fiscal incidence model based on the South African 2014/15 Living Conditions Survey to simulate the poverty … COVID-19 Social Relief of Distress grant upon its expiry and closing the extreme (food poverty line) poverty gap. Our key …

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 …

results are interpreted in terms of poverty and inequality statistics while closely looking into the assumptions of the … microsimulation models. In the first scenario a modest level of guaranteed minimum income is feasible, decreasing both poverty and … unrealistically high tax rates, especially for Italy. The impact on poverty and inequality of the HNIT scheme is markedly higher for …

The poverty reduction potential of national social assistance programs in eight Central and Eastern European countries … higher effectiveness in reducing poverty. Unlike Western Europe, no trade-off between extensiveness and benefit generosity or …

of its deep child poverty situation, and South Africa's assistance benefit system performs better in lifting children out …The paper documents child poverty levels and trends using both relative ('deep') and absolute ('extreme') measures in … different components of household income and other resources on child deep-poverty rates to examine the role of the market and …

Minimum Income (MI) schemes are essential to alleviate poverty and guarantee a last-resort safety net to households … with insufficient resources. Assessing the effectiveness of MI schemes in poverty reduction is challenging. Studies based … their degree of coverage and adequacy, their poverty-alleviating effects and their overall cost. Finally, we explore the …

The nation's best known welfare program, Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) was created to give widows and … destitute mothers the means to stay at home and care for children. However, the entry of large numbers of American mothers into … the paid workforce has created increasing tension between the desire to care for impoverished children and the belief that …