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Still Hungry for Success? Targeting the poor and the case of Free School Meals
Morelli, Carlo J.; Seaman, Paul T. - Department of Economics Studies, University of Dundee - 2006
household composition within the English regions and Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. This paper demonstrates that, first … but that it would have a stronger poverty reducing impact on poverty levels in Scotland and Northern Ireland than anywhere …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005099948
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Radically Divergent? Homelessness Policy and Practice in Post-devolution Scotland
Pawson, Hal; Davidson, Emma - In: International Journal of Housing Policy 8 (2008) 1, pp. 39-60
This paper reviews the evolution of homelessness policy and practice in Scotland since the establishment of the … advocacy of 'prevention-focused practice'. Drawing on empirical research in both Scotland and England, the paper compares and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009221810
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Social Justice, Social Welfare and Devolution: Nationalism and Social Policy Making in Scotland
Mooney, Gerry; Scott, Gill - In: Poverty & Public Policy 3 (2011) 4, pp. 5-5
<p>Constitutional change in the UK in 1998 led to the establishment of devolution for Scotland, and the Scottish … with a Scottish Nationalist Party (SNP) Government in power in Edinburgh committed to greater devolution for Scotland and … Parliament was reconvened in 1999 after a gap of nearly 300 years. Devolution promised the development of policies that were more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009645175
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Radically Divergent? Homelessness Policy and Practice in Post-devolution Scotland
Pawson, Hal; Davidson, Emma - In: European Journal of Housing Policy 8 (2008) 1, pp. 39-60
This paper reviews the evolution of homelessness policy and practice in Scotland since the establishment of the … advocacy of 'prevention-focused practice'. Drawing on empirical research in both Scotland and England, the paper compares and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005483213
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Impacts of the global economic crisis and national policy responses on children in Cameroon
Cockburn, John; Emini, Arnault Christian; Tiberti, Luca - In: Canadian journal of development studies 35 (2014) 3, pp. 396-418
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011309311
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Interactions between policy effects, population characteristics and the tax-benefit system : an illustration using child poverty and child related policies in Romania and the Czech...
Avram, Silvia; Militaru, Eva - 2015
We investigate the impact of the Romanian and Czech family policy systems on the income distribution and poverty risk of families with children. We focus on separating out the effects of the policy design itself, size of the benefits and the interaction between policies and population...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010498388
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Poverty, changing political regimes, and social cash transfers in Zimbabwe, 1980 - 2016
Chinyoka, Isaac - 2017
Since 2000, Zimbabwe has been under some pressure to provide more fully for its children. It is not clear whether child poverty has worsened, although AIDS, drought, and economic mismanagement have all compromised poverty reduction. In any case, child poverty has come under increased scrutiny,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011634470
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Child poverty in Armenia : national Multiple Overlapping Deprivation Analysis
Ferrone, Lucia; Chzhen, Yekaterina - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011603953
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Local civil regimes for combating child poverty: insights from the Austrian and Belgian corporatist welfare states
Schinnerl, Melanie; Greiling, Dorothea - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012261281
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Redistribution and child poverty : a cross-national comparison between Brazil, Colombia, Panama, Peru, Russia, and South Africa
González, Marcela F. - 2022
I propose a disaggregated analysis of the income that households receive to compare the redistributive capacity of the state taking child poverty as case of study. I use the LIS Database and cross-nationally compare six countries: Brazil, Colombia, Panama, Peru, Russia, and South Africa. I...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013337584