Poverty

This presentation was given at the launch of the report 'Living standards, poverty and inequality in the UK: 2015' on 16 July 2015.

This policy paper was presented at the EDePo 'Improving productivity in developing countries: identifying bottlenecks and obstacles to productive investments and technology adoption' conference held at Goodenough College on the 8th and 9th July 2015.

This policy paper was presented at the EDePo 'Improving productivity in developing countries: identifying bottlenecks and obstacles to productive investments and technology adoption' conference held at Goodenough College on the 8th and 9th July 2015.

This policy paper was presented at the EDePo 'Improving productivity in developing countries: identifying bottlenecks and obstacles to productive investments and technology adoption' conference held at Goodenough College on the 8th and 9th July 2015.

The Department for Work and Pensions has published its annual statistics on the distribution of household income in the UK. This latest release covers the years up to and including 2013–14. In this Observation, we briefly outline some of the key information contained in the DWP publication.

Jeremy Paxman missed a golden opportunity to question Ed Miliband further on his approach on inequality and what the Labour party might do should it win on May 7. There appears to be a significant difference between the two main parties in their philosophies and policies with respect to inequality, says Paul Johnson writing in the Times. But we need to quiz them on these issues to try to elicit some real information.

This presentation was given at the RES conference 2015.

Following David Cameron's announcement that universal pensioner benefits will again be protected, should the Conservative Party win the election, Andrew Hood examines the support given to pensioners in an article published in the Daily Telegraph. Over the past 30 years, pensioner incomes have caught up with those of non-pensioners. The data show very clearly that pensioners are now no more likely to be in poverty than the rest of the population. And after accounting for housing costs, the typical pensioner is now better off than the typical non-pensioner.

Presentation given at the 'Autumn Statement 2014: IFS analysis' event on 4 December 2014.

In work funded by the Office of the First Minister and Deputy First Minister in Northern Ireland, the IFS today published an update of our previous income projections for Northern Ireland and for the UK as a whole. This observation draws out what this research tells us about the likely path of household incomes in the UK in the next few years.