Urban grassroots non-governmental organisations in Bombay: a suggested typology

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Two-child limit mitigation in Scotland would help larger poor families but policy design could harm work incentives

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Mitigating the two-child limit policy would be an effective way to reduce child poverty, but designing an effective policy is not straightforward. 

14 March 2025

How to reduce child poverty: compare the policy options

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Use these charts to compare policies for reducing child poverty and to examine how child poverty rates have changed over time across different groups.

3 October 2024

How can government reduce child poverty?

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We're exploring why there's been an increase in child poverty since 2010 and options the government has to reduce this.

3 October 2024

Policy analysis

How should governments help households during an energy crisis?

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The government spent billions on support to help households with their energy bills in 2022–23. Could a better-designed package have saved money?

31 January 2025

Green Budget 2024: Full report

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The new Chancellor faces a difficult fiscal inheritance. Her choices on tax and spending at this first Budget could define the rest of the parliament.

10 October 2024

Living standards, poverty and inequality in the UK: 2024

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How do rising mortgage rates and differential inflation affect incomes and poverty? How have incomes and poverty changed for pensioners?

25 July 2024

Academic research

The welfare effects of price shocks and household relief packages: Evidence from an energy crisis

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How should governments respond to rapid increases in the cost of living driven by shocks to the prices of staple goods?

31 January 2025

What would you do with £500? (...in your own words)

working paper

We use a new approach to better investigate differences in consumer behaviour in response to hypothetical, one-off gains and losses.

12 September 2024

Latin American and Caribbean Inequality Review (LACIR) supplement launches in Oxford Open Economics

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The supplement contains a set of 27 papers and an editorial summary on five key themes of inequality, from 74 authors from wide range of disciplines.

3 March 2025