Panel:
Improving Poverty Reduction in Europe: Identifying Policy Mixes That Work
(Poverty and Income Policy)
Tuesday, June 14, 2016: 3:45 PM-5:15 PM
Clement House, 2nd Floor, Room 06 (London School of Economics)
*Names in bold indicate Presenter
Panel Organizer: Tim Goedemé, Herman Deleeck Centre for Social Policy - University of Antwerp
Even in a rich region such as the European Union, poverty remains an issue of concern. In order to address the long standstill in poverty reduction in many European countries, the EU has set a poverty reduction target, aimed at the decreasing the number of persons at risk of poverty or social exclusion with 20 million by 2020. Even so, the question remains how such a decrease could be achieved. While most poverty studies aim at identifying problems with currently implemented policies, less is known about how policies might be reformed to reduce more effectively poverty, given budgetary constraints and concerns with avoiding employment traps. Therefore, in this session we bring together a collection of papers that aim to set a step further, by first analysing the poverty impact of policy reforms over the past decade, and subsequently presenting various strategies of how more successful policy packages could be identified.
