that balances goals of reducing poverty, encouraging employment and fiscal sustainability. Using the OECD’s Tax-Benefit and …-wage earners would make inroads into poverty and inequality while encouraging formal work. This paper accompanies and extends the …

Poverty alleviation is an important objective of European countries and of the United States. If these ‘rich’ states … offer elaborate systems of income maintenance, why is there still a considerable amount of poverty? And why are anti-poverty …-country research papers on anti-poverty policy. Two former papers analyzed the effects of social transfers on both poverty levels and …

poverty has worsened, although AIDS, drought, and economic mismanagement have all compromised poverty reduction. In any case …, child poverty has come under increased scrutiny, in part because of the Millennium Development Goals and the growing …

Notwithstanding impressive progress, poverty and inequality remain high in Chile in OECD comparison, and the tax … be quite narrowly targeted at families living in extreme poverty. Over time, the government should consider increasing … support for the poor to find jobs of decent quality will be key to help them overcome poverty in a sustainable way. Ingreso …

analysis of poverty. In this chapter, we examine the poverty incidence among older people across LIS countries, relying on data … from the Luxembourg Income Study. The data show that poverty rates are substantially reduced by redistribution via tax …/benefit systems (mainly via pension benefits). Furthermore, the data show that old-age poverty rates and the antipoverty effect of …

, poverty rates have stagnated and in some countries even increased. In the welfare state literature, it has been argued that … these disappointing poverty trends may be partly attributable to the reforming of traditional welfare state programmes into … for a linkage between stagnating or increasing poverty trends and shifts in expenditures to new welfare state programmes …

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