Upcoming Conferences/Events

Activating the Unemployed: Welfare Reform in Times of High Unemployment
Paris, France
September, 2010

Migration: A World in Motion: A Multinational Conference on Migration and Migration Policy
Maastricht, Netherlands
February 18-20, 2010

Past Conferences/Events

Evaluation and Performance Management of Job Training Programs: What Can the European Social Fund Learn from the WIA Experience?
Washington, D.C.
November 7, 2009

APPAM Special Meeting
European Measures of Income, Poverty, and Social Exclusion: Recent Developments and Lessons for U.S. Poverty Measurement
Washington, D.C.
November 4, 2009

Environmental Policy: A Multinational Conference on Policy Analysis and Teaching Methods
Seoul, Korea
June 11-13, 2009

Measuring Poverty, Income Inequality, and Social Exclusion: Lessons from Europe
Paris, France
March 16-17, 2009

Asian Social Protection in Comparative Perspective
Singapore
January 7-9, 2009

Teaching Policy Analysis and Management in Cross-National Settings
Washington, D.C.
November 10, 2007


 

International Policy Exchange Series

About the Series

European Measures of Income and Poverty: Lessons for the U.S.

Chinese Social Policy in a Time of Transition

Asian Pension Policies: A Comparative Perspective

New Developments in Child Welfare Policy: Comparative Trends in Europe and the U.S.

European and American Social Models: Comparing Dimensions of Societal Well-Being

Journal Articles

Income Transfers Alone Won’t Eradicate Poverty
by Douglas Besharov and Douglas Call

European Measures of Income, Poverty and Social Exclusion: Recent Developments and Lessons for U.S. Poverty Measurements
by Douglas Besharov

Deconstructing European Poverty Measures: What Relative and Absolute Scales Measure
by Richard Burkhauser

Impressionistic Realism: The Europeans Focus the U.S. on Measurement
by David Johnson

Europe's Other Poverty Measures: Absolute Thresholds Underlying Social Assistance
by Richard Bavier

European Measures of Poverty and "Social Exclusion": Material Deprivation, Consumption, and Life Satisfaction
by Neil Gilbert

New Comparative Measures of Income, Material Deprivation, and Well-Being
by Timothy Smeeding

Social Welfare's Twin Dilemmas: "Universalism vs. Targeting" and "Support vs. Dependency"
by Douglas Besharov