income and alleviating poverty in Italy. The main result is that the great emphasis put by Italian policy-makers in designing … other hand, child benefits - potentially a more effective tool - have not proven to be a growing source of redistribution in …

, child poverty remains high as compared to other EU countries, possibly pointing to a weaker role of the public sector in … support also reduces poverty intensity and incidence, although not to a large extent. …

How can poverty reduction be improved and at what cost? Available evidence suggests that social investment strategies … and employment policies are important but not sufficient. In order to reduce the number of people below the relative at-risk-of-poverty … paper we show that this is not a cheap option. We calculate the hypothetical cost of closing the poverty gap while …