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Minimum Income Standards and Reference Budgets: International and Comparative Policy Perspectives

Christopher Deeming

Abstract

Research into minimum income standards and reference budgets around the world is compared in this illuminating book. From countries with long established research traditions to places where it is relatively new, the book sets out the different aims and objectives of investigations into the minimum needs and requirements of populations, and the historical contexts, theoretical frameworks and methodological issues that lie behind each approach. For policymakers, practitioners and social policy and poverty academics, this essential review of learnings to date and future prospects for research is ... More

Keywords: minimum income standards, reference budgets, population needs, social protection, social protection

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2020 Print ISBN-13: 9781447352952
Published to Policy Press Scholarship Online: January 2021 DOI:10.1332/policypress/9781447352952.001.0001

Authors

Affiliations are at time of print publication.

Christopher Deeming, editor
University of Strathclyde

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Contents

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Front Matter

Title Pages

List of tables and figures

Contributors

Acknowledgements

Preface from the series editors

Foreword

Part I Introduction

1 An introduction to minimum income standards and reference budgets: international and comparative policy perspectives

Christopher Deeming

Part II Case studies

2 From normative budget standards to consensual minimum income standards in the UK

Jonathan Bradshaw

3 Minimum Essential Standards of Living research in Ireland

Bernadette Mac Mahon and Robert Thornton

4 The French experience of reference budgets

Pierre Concialdi

5 Minimum income research in Japan: its development and political implications

Aya K. Abe

6 Measuring needs and setting standards in Singapore

Kok-Hoe Ng, Yu-Wei Neo, Youyenn Teo, Ad Maulod and Yi-Ting Ting

7 A South African pilot of the Minimum Income Standards approach

Gemma Wright, Matt Padley and Wanga Zembe-Mkabile

8 Reference budgets as tools for everyday life, evaluation and policy making in Finland

Anna-Riitta Lehtinen and Kristiina Aalto

9 Belgian reference budgets for social participation and their use for policy purposes

Bérénice Storms

10 The development, value and application of budget standards: reflecting on the Australian experience

Peter Saunders

11 Estimating the cost of raising a child in Catalonia through the reference budgets approach

Irene Cussó-Parcerisas, Elena Carrillo Álvarez and Jordi Riera Romaní

12 Measuring poverty in the Netherlands: the generalised reference budget approach

J. Cok Vrooman, Benedikt Goderis, Stella Hoff and Bart van Hulst

13 The Norwegian reference budget

Marthe Hårvik Austgulen and Elling Borgeraas

14 Minimum budgets for Danish families

Jens Bonke and Anders Eiler Wiese Christensen

15 The Swedish Consumer Agency’s calculations of reference values for some of the most common household expense categories

Malin Lindquist Skogar and Ingrid Eriksson

Part III Cross-national and comparative perspectives

16 The Slovenian experience with three methods for defining the minimum income

Nada Stropnik

17 Applying the Minimum Income Standard in diverse national contexts

Matt Padley and Abigail Davis

18 The steep and winding road to comparable reference budgets in Europe

Tim Goedemé

19 Adequate income in Portugal: a comparison of two estimation methods

José A. Pereirinha, Elvira Pereira, Francisco Branco, Dália Costa and Maria Inês Amaro

Part IV Policy and practice

20 Basic needs budgets in policy and practice

Gordon M. Fisher

21 Establishing a national standard: the role of the UK’s Minimum Income Standard in policy and practice

Donald Hirsch

22 Minimum Income Standards in the Basic Income debate

Malcolm Torry

Part V Conclusions

23 Minimum income standards and reference budgets: past, present, future?

Christopher Deeming

End Matter

Index