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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

    Luke Sibieta
    Luke Sibieta

    Research Fellow

    Luke is a Research Fellow at the IFS and his general research interests include education policy, political economy and poverty and inequality.

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    Alastair Muriel

    David Phillips
    David Phillips

    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: 3 December 2024).

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