Trends

This public economics lecture was delivered at Oxford and Cambridge Universities in November 2009.

One of David Cameron's key themes in his speech to the Conservative Party conference was that Labour has "made the poorest poorer", "left youth unemployment higher" and "made inequality greater". How fair are these accusations?

This presentation was given at the Child Poverty Unit on 29 September 2009.

Plenary Lecture for the African Econometric Society

This presentation was delivered at the IFS "Poverty and Inequality in the UK: 2009" briefing, 8 May 2009.

This presentation was delivered at the IFS "Poverty and Inequality in the UK: 2009" briefing, 8 May 2009.

This presentation was delivered on 18 Wednesday 2009 at the IFS, London.

This paper was presented at the workshop, Microsimulation as a tool for the analysis of public policies: methods and applications at the Paris School of Economics.

Last week ministers made changes to the Government's child poverty targets, suggesting that it would be enough to cut the proportion of children in poverty on the most familiar definition to 10% rather than the 5% they have so far aspired to.