Poverty

This Briefing Note aims to document the course of average living standards, and those of particular subgroups in society, during the previous three UK recessions.

Previous analysis suggests that some children in households with low income do not have commensurately low living standards. This report aims to document the extent to which this is true.

Expectations and perceptions in developing countries: their measurement and their use

This Briefing Note discusses how much scope there is to raise revenue from the very rich by increasing income tax rates and assesses in detail the amount of revenue that is likely to be raised by the government's proposed reforms.

This document sets out the response of IFS researchers to the government's consultation entitled "Ending Child Poverty: Making it Happen", launched in January 2009.

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.

This paper looks at different labour market outcomes for Ethnic Minority benefit claimants and otherwise identical Whites.

This Briefing Note gives details of the changes to taxes, benefits and tax credits directly affecting households, and the total distributional impact of measures announced in PBR 2008.