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Type: Journal Articles Authors: Stuart Adam and Mike Brewer
Published in: Economic Review
Volume, issue, pages: Vol. 20, No. 4
In the previous edition, we argued that governments might care about child poverty for reasons of equity and efficiency, and we introduced the concept of an equivalence scale as a way to help compare well-being across different sorts of households. In this article, we look at the changing level of cash transfers to families with children in the UK since 1975, and what this has done to the level of child poverty, as defined by the present Government. Search |
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