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The Coalition's record on cash transfers, poverty and inequality 2010-2015

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Presenting his 2010 spending review, George Osborne, the Chancellor, insisted that 'those with the broadest shoulders should bear the greatest burden'. How did the Coalition's benefit and direct tax policies affect the distribution of incomes, inequality and poverty?

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  • Hills, John, 2015. "The Coalition's record on cash transfers, poverty and inequality 2010-2015," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 121541, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
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    Keywords

    social policy; benefits; distributions of economic outcomes; income poverty; tax and benefit policy; wealth inequality;
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    JEL classification:

    • I00 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - General - - - General
    • H00 - Public Economics - - General - - - General

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