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Reducing Child Poverty in Britain: An Assessment of Government Policy 1997-2001

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  • Sutherland, Holly
  • Piachaud, David

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The reduction and eventual elimination of child poverty has become one of the central objectives of the new Labour Government in Britain. Measures to achieve this by changing taxes and benefits and promoting paid work are described. Their effects are assessed using a micro-simulation model. The policy changes will achieve a significant reduction in child poverty but it will remain in 2001 substantially higher than in 1979 and much higher than in most European nations.

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  • Sutherland, Holly & Piachaud, David, 2001. "Reducing Child Poverty in Britain: An Assessment of Government Policy 1997-2001," Economic Journal, Royal Economic Society, vol. 111(469), pages 85-101, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:ecj:econjl:v:111:y:2001:i:469:p:f85-101
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    1. Sutherland, Holly & Mantovani, Daniela & Immervoll, Herwig & Levy, Horacio & Lietz, Christine & Feres, Patricio, 2002. "Indicators for social inclusion in the European Union: how responsive are they to macro-level changes?," EUROMOD Working Papers EM3/02, EUROMOD at the Institute for Social and Economic Research.
    2. Kossi Agbeviade Djoke & Ayawo Djadou & Amélé d'Almeida & Rachidatou Ruffino, 2009. "Profil de la pauvreté infantile dans quatre pays de l'UEMOA: une analyse comparative basée sur l'approche multidimensionnelle de la pauvreté," Working Papers PMMA 2009-01, PEP-PMMA.
    3. Olivier Bargain, 2009. "The distributional effects of tax-benefit policies under New Labour : a Shapley decomposition," Working Papers 200907, School of Economics, University College Dublin.
    4. Ivica Urban & Martina Pezer, 2020. "Compensation for Households with Children in Croatia, Slovenia and Austria," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 147(1), pages 203-235, January.
    5. Olivier Bargain & Olivier Donni, 2007. "A Theory of Child Targeting," Working Papers 200710, Geary Institute, University College Dublin.
    6. Dimitris Ballas & Richard Kingston & John Stillwell & Jianhui Jin, 2007. "Building a Spatial Microsimulation-Based Planning Support System for Local Policy Making," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 39(10), pages 2482-2499, October.
    7. Dianna M Smith & Graham P Clarke & Kirk Harland, 2009. "Improving the Synthetic Data Generation Process in Spatial Microsimulation Models," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 41(5), pages 1251-1268, May.
    8. Levy, Horacio, 2003. "Child-targeted tax-benefit reform in Spain in a European context: a microsimulation analysis using EUROMOD," EUROMOD Working Papers EM2/03, EUROMOD at the Institute for Social and Economic Research.
    9. Sutherland, Holly, 2001. "Reducing child poverty in Europe: what can static microsimulation models tell us?," EUROMOD Working Papers EM5/01, EUROMOD at the Institute for Social and Economic Research.
    10. Tania Arrieta, 2022. "Austerity in the United Kingdom and its legacy: Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic," The Economic and Labour Relations Review, , vol. 33(2), pages 238-255, June.
    11. Marco Francesconi & Holly Sutherland & Francesca Zantomio, 2011. "A comparison of earnings measures from longitudinal and cross‐sectional surveys: evidence from the UK," Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A, Royal Statistical Society, vol. 174(2), pages 297-326, April.
    12. Sutherland H, 2001. "Five Labour Budgets (1997 - 2001): impacts on the distribution of household incomes and on child poverty," Microsimulation Unit Research Notes MU/RN/41, Microsimulation Unit at the Institute for Social and Economic Research.
    13. David Rossiter & Dimitris Ballas & Graham Clarke & Danny Dorling, 2009. "Dynamic spatial microsimulation using the concept of GHOSTs," International Journal of Microsimulation, International Microsimulation Association, vol. 2(2), pages 15-26.
    14. Sutherland, H., 2001. "The National Minimum Wage and In-work Poverty," Cambridge Working Papers in Economics 0111, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge.

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