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In this Briefing Note, we assess the changes to living standards that have occurred under the first 11 years of the Labour government, setting out how average incomes, income inequality and poverty have changed between 1996-97 and 2007-08 (the latest year for which data on all three are available). We compare these changes with what happened under previous governments.

Authors

Luke Sibieta
Luke Sibieta

Research Fellow

Luke is a Research Fellow at the IFS and his general research interests include education policy, political economy and poverty and inequality.

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Alastair Muriel

David Phillips
David Phillips

Associate Director

David is Head of Devolved and Local Government Finance. He also works on tax in developing countries as part of our TaxDev centre.

Report details

DOI
10.1920/bn.ifs.2010.0089
Publisher
Institute for Fiscal Studies

Suggested citation

A, Muriel and D, Phillips and L, Sibieta. (2010). Living standards, inequality and poverty: Labour's record. London: Institute for Fiscal Studies. Available at: https://ifs.org.uk/publications/living-standards-inequality-and-poverty-labours-record (accessed: 19 April 2024).

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