This paper aims at presenting an assessment of welfare reforms under a framework of program heterogeneity and … alternative measures of success. We focus on a specific welfare program –Madrid’s Ingreso Madrileño de Integración (IMI)– which … administrative records (over 50,000 spells) matched with a special survey conducted for former welfare recipients makes possible to …

for describing social disadvantage in contemporary Sweden – poverty, social exclusion and the concept “utanförskap”. The …

This paper examines the impact of the transition on living standards and welfare in the five Republics of former Soviet … definition of welfare is taken, including both economic measures and capability-based indicators, reflecting the health and …-social stress. Over half the population is now living in poverty. Real wages have fallen, joblessness has increased, school …

This paper studies the eect of a sharp rice price increase on welfare and poverty in Bangladesh. We employ household … expenditure information to estimate the welfare loss in- duced by the price increase. Our ndings suggest that we underestimate the … proportionate welfare loss for the rice producing households and overestimate that of the households who do not produce rice, if we …

Advocates of living wage laws claim wage mandates will help families escape poverty by increasing family earnings … beyond the poverty line. This article examines such programs and the effect a change in pay would have on taxes and benefits … earnings below the poverty line take advantage of programs specifically designed to help them out of poverty. Phase-out rates …

In 2003, the European Union adopted a new social indicator, the “in-work at-risk-of-poverty rate”. According to the … below the poverty threshold. This indicator is often used as a kind of immutable object regardless of the fact that it is … calculation of the in-work poverty risk and for the design of policies to combat it. The purpose of this paper is to show the …

result of increasing poverty trends providing a detailed analysis of regional welfare policies. Among the different results … across regions in terms of unemployment and poverty. The dramatic growth in the number of recipients of regional welfare …This paper aims at reviewing some of the main changes in poverty and other measures of economic vulnerability in Spain …

overall average incomes, suggesting that poverty reduction requires nothing much more than promoting rapid economic growth …. This paper attempts to probe beneath cross-country averages by analyzing provincial data on the poverty-growth nexus in the … Philippines. The results show that economic growth explains a lot but not all about poverty. The balance which seems fairly large …