Great strides have been made in reducing poverty amongst the elderly in most rich countries over the past forty years …. But pensioner poverty has not been eradicated, especially in the English-speaking nations. Poverty rates amongst older …, poverty rates rise with both age and changes in living arrangements though living alone has a larger effect for women. Poverty …

Several recent studies have focused attention on the relationship between welfare states and poverty. This work has … looked primarily at relative poverty, employing concepts of welfare state generosity that are problematic. This has made it … - and poverty levels in advanced industrial democracies in the last quarter of the twentieth century. Our results strongly …

For a long time conventional wisdom held that income inequality enhances investment and work incentives and thereby is … association between inequality and slower growth across large samples of mainly less developed nations. Researchers also … identified various causal paths through which inequality might reduce growth. Recently, several studies focusing on rich …

Japan, a larger extent of income inequality is manifest particularly among households with young children. The poverty rate … households with children. The second part compares and analyzes cross-national micro-data on households with children. And … among households with young children is higher in Japan than France and Sweden. The need for child-rearing policies in Japan …

children. We assess the net effects of existing policies on poverty and low income and wealth. While best practices may be … Taiwan, China, and Mexico, around the turn of the century. In particular, we address what happens to older women as they … efforts in fighting elder poverty, and by the Australian superannuation retirement income system. However, the developing …

The feminisation of poverty is said to have become a common feature in the majority of advanced welfare states, but it … is equally true that there has been significant variation in the feminisation of poverty from one country to another …. While the concept of the feminisation of poverty remains controversial, there have been very few attempts to reveal a …

-thirds societies in which two-thirds enjoy the benefits of affluence, while one-third are locked into poverty or near-poverty. This … finding is that poverty (defined as receiving less than half of average net household equivalent income) is mostly short term … and that nothing like one-third are locked into poverty On the other hand, far more people than had previously been …

The transitional economies of the Former Soviet Union (FSU) have enjoyed an extraordinary period of growth and poverty … households. The paper assesses the relative importance of these transfers for welfare and poverty in Moldova, the poorest country … effective in improving welfare and reducing poverty whereas social assistance transfers have little or no effect. Social …