We re-explore Able-Smith and Townsend's landmark study of poverty in early post WW2 Britain. They found a large … increase in poverty between 1953-4 and 1960, a period of relatively strong economic growth. Our re-examination is a first … absolute poverty and also substantially under-estimated the rise in relative poverty. Their and our findings on poverty reflect …

alleviate even the most extremes of poverty. In this sense, the pandemic is yet another reminder for how important investments …

practice. The results show that despite different fiscal effects, policies overall mostly reduced poverty and inequality and …, but generally also contributed more to poverty and inequality reduction than structural policy reforms. …

, Germany, Ireland, Spain, Hungary and Russia. As well as using standard relative poverty definitions the paper examines flows …This paper compares child poverty dynamics cross-nationally using panel data from seven nations: the USA, Britain … patterns of income mobility and poverty dynamics across the seven countries. The key exception is Russia, where the economic …

material from four Latin American countries - Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Peru - and two European countries - Spain and the UK …