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Please note: this commentary was revised on 24 February 2009 to remove the incorrect assertion in the summary and conclusion that a bad recession would worsen the combined material deprivation and relative income measure of child poverty. Table 3 shows the opposite to be the case.
The 2008 Pre-Budget Report (PBR) said that 'the Government will take stock of progress towards its 2010 and 2020 child poverty target in the [2009] Budget'. As background to that exercise, this paper updates our previous analysis of the prospects for child poverty in the UK in 2010-11 and 2020-21.
Authors

Mike Brewer

James Browne

Robert Joyce

Holly Sutherland
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- 10.1920/co.ifs.2009.0108
- Publisher
- IFS
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Brewer, M et al. (2009). Micro-simulating child poverty in 2010 and 2020. London: IFS. Available at: https://ifs.org.uk/publications/micro-simulating-child-poverty-2010-and-2020 (accessed: 15 February 2025).
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