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In this Briefing Note, we assess the changes to living standards that have occurred under the first 11 years of the Labour government, setting out how average incomes, income inequality and poverty have changed between 1996-97 and 2007-08 (the latest year for which data on all three are available). We compare these changes with what happened under previous governments.
Authors
Research Fellow
Luke is a Research Fellow at the IFS and his general research interests include education policy, political economy and poverty and inequality.
Alastair Muriel
Associate Director
David is Head of Devolved and Local Government Finance. He also works on tax in developing countries as part of our TaxDev centre.
Report details
- DOI
- 10.1920/bn.ifs.2010.0089
- Publisher
- Institute for Fiscal Studies
Suggested citation
A, Muriel and D, Phillips and L, Sibieta. (2010). Living standards, inequality and poverty: Labour's record. London: Institute for Fiscal Studies. Available at: https://ifs.org.uk/publications/living-standards-inequality-and-poverty-labours-record (accessed: 1 July 2024).
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