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Scenarios for reducing poverty in Belgium, Greece and the United Kingdom

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  • Tim Goedemé
  • Holly Sutherland
  • Paola Di Agostini
  • Chrysa Leventi
  • Manos Matsaganis
  • Dieter Vandelannoote
  • Gerlinde Verbist

Abstract

Poverty reduction remains a huge challenge for policy makers in Europe. In this paper, we outline three strategies for identifying effective policy reform packages for reducing income poverty in Europe: (1) reversing regressive reforms and using measures of ‘poverty reduction / public budget trade-offs’ to identify efficient and effective policy reforms; (2) upscaling existing policies; (3) breaking down policies into their elementary parts and combining policy options systematically for identifying the most effective policy design. All three strategies make use of the European microsimulation EUROMOD. We illustrate them with case studies of the United Kingdom, Greece and Belgium, three countries with a very different welfare state trajectory, and social outcomes. The paper shows that all three strategies are useful for identifying policy packages that work, and for producing evidence for more effective poverty-reducing policy reform packages. We also highlight the most important limitations of our approach.

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  • Tim Goedemé & Holly Sutherland & Paola Di Agostini & Chrysa Leventi & Manos Matsaganis & Dieter Vandelannoote & Gerlinde Verbist, 2016. "Scenarios for reducing poverty in Belgium, Greece and the United Kingdom," Working Papers 16/14, Herman Deleeck Centre for Social Policy, University of Antwerp.
    • Handle: RePEc:hdl:wpaper:1614
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    Keywords

    Poverty; Europe 2020; EU; social inclusion; social policy; fiscal policy; employment; microsimulation; EU-SILC;
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    JEL classification:

    • D13 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Household Production and Intrahouse Allocation
    • D30 - Microeconomics - - Distribution - - - General
    • H53 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - Government Expenditures and Welfare Programs
    • I38 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs

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