Poverty

This paper studies the impact of a conditional cash transfer programme in Colombia on the total consumption of very poor households and on its components.

This paper discusses inequality orderings based explicitly on closing up of income gaps.

This report aims to illuminate the trade-off between work incentives and redistribution.

Two strategies that governments have to help people on low incomes - providing them with financial support directly, and encouraging them to earn more - generally conflict.

This paper reviews various techniques for quantifying financial incentives to work, shows how financial work incentives have changed across the population since 1979, and estimates how much of these changes are due to changes in the tax and benefit system.

The paper studies the effects of Familias en Acción, a conditional cash transfer programme implemented in rural areas in Colombia in 2002, on school enrolment and child labour.

This study forecasts the prospects for child poverty in 2010/11 and 2020/21 under current government policies, and illustrates the impact of various tax and benefit policies that could be implemented in 2010 and 2020.

Much of the recent policy debate surrounding poverty in Britain focuses on income as a measure of living standards. In this report we consider one alternative to income for measuring poverty that has been largely overlooked in the mainstream poverty debate in the UK: namely household expenditure.

This Commentary provides an update on trends in poverty and inequality in Great Britain, based on the latest official government statistics.

This notes looks at discrepancies in the numbers of lone parents claiming tax credits and relates this to the recent child poverty figures.

This paper uses the Millennium Cohort Study to look at ethnic differences in birth outcomes for a cohort of English children born in 2000 and 2001.

This research is part of a large evaluation effort, undertaken by a consortium formed by IFS, Econometria and SEI, which has considered the effects of Familias en Acción on a variety of outcomes one year after its implementation.

We study the prices of basic commodities that are relatively homogeneous in some rural communities in Colombia.

In this report, we provide estimates of how the programme has influenced nutrition and health-related indicators for children in the short term, roughly one year after its implementation.