Add to ORKGIt has been noted that failure to meet the target set by government for reducing the head count ratio of child poverty in Britain is partly due to the success of government policy in generating economic growth. Apart from missing the argument that absolute poverty is not a meaningful idea, this apology for the failure of government to meet poverty targets also misses wider problems embedded in recent trends in the household income distribution. For example, inequality measures sensitive to the distribution of income amongst the poor suggest that the experience of those remained poor may have worsened.Poverty, Child Poverty, Income Distribution, FGT, Great Britain.
The UK Government is committed to ending child poverty by 2020 and halving it by 2010; child poverty...
In 2016 the UK’s Conservative Government radically changed the official approach to child poverty me...
There is cross-party agreement on the urgency of addressing child poverty in the UK, but less consen...
As unemployment continues to rise to near-record levels, the reductions in child poverty seen under ...
According to Family Expenditure Survey (FES) data, child poverty (with a poverty line defined at hal...
Poverty is a lifestyle choice, according to government rhetoric. And although research suggests othe...
According to one measure from the government figures released today, an extra 300,000 children have ...
WP 2002-21 July 2002If the absolute number of poor people goes up, but the fraction of people in pov...
Before the 2001 election the Treasury said that `tax and benefit reforms announced in this Parliamen...
However you define poverty, households on the lowest incomes are falling further short of reaching a...
In 1999, one in four British children lived in poverty—the third highest child poverty rate among in...
Relative poverty in the UK has risen massively since 1979 mainly because of increasing worklessness,...
Thomas Wardle argues that the Child Poverty Act misses the point by relying exclusively on financial...
As a result of the Child Poverty Act (2010), current and future governments are committed to reducin...
While poverty is widely accepted to be an inherently multi-dimensional concept, it has proved very d...
The UK Government is committed to ending child poverty by 2020 and halving it by 2010; child poverty...
In 2016 the UK’s Conservative Government radically changed the official approach to child poverty me...
There is cross-party agreement on the urgency of addressing child poverty in the UK, but less consen...
As unemployment continues to rise to near-record levels, the reductions in child poverty seen under ...
According to Family Expenditure Survey (FES) data, child poverty (with a poverty line defined at hal...
Poverty is a lifestyle choice, according to government rhetoric. And although research suggests othe...
According to one measure from the government figures released today, an extra 300,000 children have ...
WP 2002-21 July 2002If the absolute number of poor people goes up, but the fraction of people in pov...
Before the 2001 election the Treasury said that `tax and benefit reforms announced in this Parliamen...
However you define poverty, households on the lowest incomes are falling further short of reaching a...
In 1999, one in four British children lived in poverty—the third highest child poverty rate among in...
Relative poverty in the UK has risen massively since 1979 mainly because of increasing worklessness,...
Thomas Wardle argues that the Child Poverty Act misses the point by relying exclusively on financial...
As a result of the Child Poverty Act (2010), current and future governments are committed to reducin...
While poverty is widely accepted to be an inherently multi-dimensional concept, it has proved very d...
The UK Government is committed to ending child poverty by 2020 and halving it by 2010; child poverty...
In 2016 the UK’s Conservative Government radically changed the official approach to child poverty me...
There is cross-party agreement on the urgency of addressing child poverty in the UK, but less consen...