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| Changing poverty post-1997 | | Author(s) | David Piachaud, Holly Sutherland |
| Corporate Author | ESRC Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion - CASE, Suntory-Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines - STICERD, London School of Economics and Political Science |
| Publisher | STICERD, London, 2002 |
| Pages | 45 pp (CASEpaper 63) |
| Source | Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE. |
| Keywords | Poverty ; Social policy ; Evaluation ; Longitudinal surveys. |
| Annotation | The first part of this paper examines changes in poverty between 1996/97 and 2000/01 as measured by the Family Resources Survey (FRS), on which government estimates of Households Below Average Income are based. There was a small reduction of poverty overall, and a larger proportionate fall in child poverty. This fall was attributable in part to increased employment and in part due to changes in benefits and tax credits which increased for some, particularly for families on low earnings with children, but fell relative to median incomes for many of those without children and not in employment. The second part assesses policy changes implemented or announced for the period 2000/01 to 2003/04 by means of a macro-simulation model, POLIMOD, using a sample from the FRS. The impact of policy changes is to reduce poverty compared to its prospects under previous policies. But, relative to a poverty level that rises in real terms in step with median incomes, future reductions in poverty are likely to be small. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-030120205 B |
| Classmark | W6: TM2: 4C: 3J |
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