Poverty reduction is a central feature of the international development agenda and contemporary poverty reduction … strategies increasingly focus on “targeting the poor”, yet poverty and inequality remain intractable foes. The report seeks to … the causes, dynamics and persistence of poverty; examines what works and what has gone wrong in international policy …

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 …