poses new challenges. The paper argues that, while the impact of the pandemic are unavoidable, the existing poverty levels …

Child poverty increased dramatically during the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2020 alone, the number of children suffering from … poverty in the EU increased by 19 percent, or close to 1 million. Left unaddressed, this would not only affect individuals … poverty and mitigate the long-term impact of poverty. Reducing the number of children affected by poverty can be achieved by …

The fast food industry has a larger share of its workers in poverty than any other industry. The combination of low …

price surge and various policy options on the performance of the main macroeconomic indicators as well as on poverty …

This paper describes the effects of general food subsidies on poverty in Tunisia, as revealed by household survey data … that targeting by commodities is not an effective way to fight against poverty and so, it is unlikely that restructuring … investigate the impact on poverty of a more targeted transfer scheme, based on proxy means-tests, using an appropriate econometric …

The War on Poverty is 50 years old. Over that time, federal and state governments have spent more than $19 trillion … fighting poverty. But what have we really accomplished?Although far from conclusive, the evidence suggests that we have … successfully reduced many of the deprivations of material poverty, especially in the early years of the War on Poverty. However …

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 … considerably across European countries. These differences are largely due to the different anti-poverty effectiveness of national …

developed. Subsequently, on the basis of LIS data the effectiveness and efficiency in reducing poverty through social assistance …

happened to child poverty in the UK in the periods 2010/11-2015/16 and 2015/16-2020/21 under a range of different indexation … scenarios of children's benefits. We find that between 2010/11 and 2015/16 both the relative and absolute child poverty rates … Financial Statement in 2014 would result in real benefit cuts and increase in child poverty. However, triple lock indexation of …