Child poverty is set to increase significantly by 2020, according to new forecasts from the Institute for Fiscal Studies – wiping out the gains made under the previous Labour Government. By 2020 nearly one in four children will be living in poverty.
The IFS report was prepared at the request of the Northern Ireland Executive, and it includes separate projections for Northern Ireland, Scotland, and England and Wales (combined) as well as for the UK as a whole.
Jonathan Bradshaw and Gill Main provide an update, 31 January 2014, on their analysis of available data on child poverty. This article discusses trends in child poverty in the UK and urges us all to 'watch this space'.
There is 'tremendous potential' for reducing global poverty in the immediate future, according to researchers at the Brookings Institution in Washington. But they also warn there is no magic ingredient for success, and that progress depends on a 'complex recipe' including better targeting of those in poverty.
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Tax and benefit changes announced by the Chancellor in his 2012 Autumn Statement will mean an extra 200,000 children living in poverty by 2017-18, according to a new analysis from the Institute for Public Policy Research think tank.
The Autumn Statement announced several important changes to the tax and benefit system from April 2013 – including a higher personal tax allowance and a 1 per cent cap, for three years, on the annual uprating of most working-age benefits and tax credits.
Rapid progress is being made in reducing poverty in developing countries, according to new analyses based on the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI). A United Nations agency report says the growth of developing countries is reducing poverty on an 'unprecedented' scale. And a detailed study of 22 developing countries from Oxford University finds that 18 have reduced multi-dimensional poverty significantly.
The UN report examines the latest state of human development across the globe on the basis of health, education and income indicators – calculating poverty by reference to the MPI. A briefing from the Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI) looks at the recent performance of a sample of 22 countries in terms of reducing poverty.
The effectiveness of anti-poverty strategies depends heavily on boosting employment, argues a new policy paper. Policies that focus on income redistribution are not enough by themselves.
The paper is published jointly by the Centre for Labour and Social Studies and the Child Poverty Action Group. It examines why, 70 years after the Beveridge report, poverty in the UK continues to be so prevalent, and what a renewed attack on want might look like.
The coalition government is guilty of deliberately misrepresenting the plight of people in poverty, argues a hard-hitting new report by a group of Churches. Evidence and statistics have been 'skewed' in order to put the blame for poverty at the door of poor people themselves, it says.
Global poverty is increasingly becoming a matter of domestic inequality, according to a new study. This is because most of the world population living in poverty (by income and multi-dimensional poverty measures) now live in countries categorised by the World Bank as middle-income countries (MICs) rather than low-income countries (LICs).
People from minority-ethnic groups in Northern Ireland face problems of low pay and child poverty, according to a new study from the Joseph Rowntree Federation.
The JRF project consisted of a comprehensive literature review of empirical research since 1998, together with five focus groups to discuss the emerging findings with people from minority-ethnic groups and community organisations.