average share of household income from welfare transfers), low-income targeting, and universalism - and poverty and … social policy better reduces poverty than social policies targeted at the poor. This article revisits Korpi and Palme … equality. Specifically, we investigate the relationships between three dimensions of welfare transfers - transfer share (the …

average share of household income from welfare transfers), low-income targeting, and universalism - and poverty and … social policy better reduces poverty than social policies targeted at the poor. This article revisits Korpi and Palme … equality. Specifically, we investigate the relationships between three dimensions of welfare transfers - "transfer share" (the …

Bourguignon and Fields ("Poverty Measures and Anti-Poverty Policy") and Gangopadhyay and Subramanian ("Optimal … Budgetary Intervention in Poverty Alleviation Schemes") have derived optimal budgetary rules for the redress of poverty through … direct income transfers when poverty is measured by the Foster, Greer and Thorbecke Pá class of indices in the context of a …

, education and childcare expenditure on estimates of income inequality and poverty for 24 European countries. The empirical … results show significant effects of public in-kind transfers on the level of income inequality and poverty for all countries …. Over the period 2006–2018, inequality and poverty estimates display rather different trends across European countries. …

consistent assessments of social welfare, inequality and poverty embodied in a given income distribution. Methods: We propose …Research background: Applied welfare economics offers various social welfare functions (SWF) for appraising income … inequality aversion (v). However, a voluntary choice of ε or v may result in inconsistent assessments of social welfare embodied …