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Book SynopsisResearch into minimum income standards and reference budgets around the world is compared in this illuminating collection from leading academics in the field.
Table of ContentsForeword ~ Professor the Baroness Ruth Lister of Burtersett Part 1: Introduction; An introduction to minimum income standards and reference budgets: International and comparative policy perspectives ~ Christopher Deeming; Part 2: Case Studies; From normative budget standards to consensual minimum income standards in the UK ~ Jonathan Bradshaw; Minimum essential standards of living research in Ireland ~ Bernadette Mac Mahon and Robert Thornton; The French experience of reference budgets ~ Pierre Concialdi; Minimum income research in Japan: its development and political implications ~ Aya K. Abe; Measuring needs and setting standards in Singapore ~ Kok-Hoe Ng, Yu-Wei Neo, Youyenn Teo, Ad Maulod and Yi-Ting Ting; A South African pilot of the minimum income standards approach ~ Gemma Wright, Matt Padley and Wanga Zembe-Mkabile; Reference budgets as tools for everyday life, evaluation and policymaking in Finland ~ Anna-Riitta Lehtinen and Kristiina Aalto; Belgian reference budgets for social participation and there use for policy purposes ~ Bérénice Storms; The development, value and application of budget standards: reflecting on the Australian experience ~ Peter Saunders; Estimating the cost of being a child in Catalonia through the reference budgets approach ~ Irene Cussó-Parcerisas, Elena Carrillo Álvarez and Jordi Riera Romaní; Measuring poverty in the Netherlands: the generalised reference budget approach ~ J. Cok Vrooman, Benedikt Goderis, Stella Hoff and Bart van Hulst; The Norwegian reference budget ~ Marthe Hårvik Austgulen and Elling Borgeraas Minimum budgets for Danish families ~ Jens Bonke and Anders Eiler Wiese Christensen 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 3: Cross-national & Comparative Perspectives; Chapter 16. The Slovenian experience with three methods for defining the minimum income ~ Nada Stropnik; Applying the minimum income standard in diverse national contexts ~ Matt Padley and Abigail Davis; The steep and winding road to comparable reference budgets in Europe ~ Tim Goedemé; Adequate income in Portugal: a comparison of two estimation methods ~ José A. Pereirinha, Elvira Pereira, Francisco Branco, Dália Costa and Inês Amaro; Part 4: Policy & Practice; Basic needs budgets in policy and practice ~ Gordon M. Fisher; Establishing minimum income Standards in policy and practice ~ Donald Hirsch; Minimum income standards in the basic income debate ~ Malcolm Torry; Part 5: Conclusions; Minimum income standards and reference budgets, past, present, future? ~ Christopher Deeming.
