longitudinal surveys and the at-risk-of-poverty or social exclusion framework to analyze recent temporal trends in absolute … multidimensional poverty across the 27 countries in the European Union and its subregions. The analysis quantifies the extent …, composition, and factors associated with the higher risks of multidimensional poverty across four countries (Bulgaria, Romania …

programmes. We conduct a poverty and inequality decomposition analysis as well as a benefit-incidence analysis to examine the … negligible poverty reducing effects at the national level. The contribution of welfare benefits to reducing inequality is mixed … to the distribution of income. Further simulation analysis indicates that expanding coverage under poverty targeting …

strategies increasingly focus on “targeting the poor”, yet poverty and inequality remain intractable foes. The report seeks to …Poverty reduction is a central feature of the international development agenda and contemporary poverty reduction … the causes, dynamics and persistence of poverty; examines what works and what has gone wrong in international policy …

Introduction -- The state of poverty : TANF recipients -- The response to poverty and inequality : the welfare state … preventing teenage pregnancy -- Addressing poverty and inequality …