Minimum Income (MI) schemes are essential to alleviate poverty and guarantee a last-resort safety net to households … with insufficient resources. Assessing the effectiveness of MI schemes in poverty reduction is challenging. Studies based … their degree of coverage and adequacy, their poverty-alleviating effects and their overall cost. Finally, we explore the …

, distributional and poverty effects of the current Spanish regional minimum income schemes, as well as the impact of increasing both … combinations of coverage and adequacy levels using national and regional poverty lines as references. Our results suggest that … increasing adequacy would have a higher impact on poverty rates than increasing coverage, but would be less effective to reduce …

, distributional and poverty effects of the current Spanish regional minimum income schemes, as well as the impact of increasing both … combinations of coverage and adequacy levels using national and regional poverty lines as references. Our results suggest that … increasing adequacy would have a higher impact on poverty rates than increasing coverage, but would be less effective to reduce …