reducing poverty through social assistance payments are calculated using several measures of poverty for five selected EU … poverty alleviation, the results provide some evidence that extremely centralised systems are more effective with regard to …

The standard poverty lines applied in empirical research tend to be problematic in terms of validity, reliability, ease … related to actual differences in the 'production of poverty' in 11 countries, as measured by the generalised budget approach … substantially higher degree of poverty than representatives of the corporatist type (Belgium, Germany, France). Poverty in the …

, pensioners are compared on their poverty rates and inequality. The redistribution paradox states that poverty will be the highest …) poverty rates are much higher than in the Netherlands (universal minimum pension). Poverty rates are higher for elderly women … inequality in income is higher for men than for women both in Belgium and in the Netherlands. In order to minimize poverty and …

measure of the historical racial regime (HRR), and examines how HRR influences contemporary poverty and racial inequality in … with greater poverty for all and especially not among White Southerners. Rather, a higher level of HRR worsens Black … poverty and especially Black-White inequalities in poverty. Further, HRR explains a significant share of the Black …

This article introduces fiscal impoverishment as a novel framework for comparative poverty research. We invert standard … analyses of welfare state policy and household poverty by focusing not on poverty alleviation but poverty creation and … finance the public sector serve to push households (further) into poverty. We estimate that across rich democracies on average …

The starting point in the paper is the relative concept of poverty. We will study how our picture of poverty will … change if we accept a very relative concept of poverty. The first problem we encountered was the selection of the benchmark …. A couple of alternative ways to conduct relativizations were selected. First, we applied the conventional poverty …

and researchers have made in the comparative study of subnational poverty and income inequality. Finally, we conclude with … a brief presentation of the most recent poverty rates for German Länder and Italian Regions derived from the LIS. It is …