Notes on contributors

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. List of tables and figures viii
4. Notes on contributors x
5. Acknowledgements xix
6. Preface from the series editors xx
7. Foreword xxii
8. Introduction
9. An introduction to minimum income standards and reference budgets: international and comparative policy perspectives 3
10. Case studies
11. From normative budget standards to consensual minimum income standards in the UK 27
12. Minimum Essential Standards of Living research in Ireland 39
13. The French experience of reference budgets 55
14. Minimum income research in Japan: its development and political implications 67
15. Measuring needs and setting standards in Singapore 83
16. A South African pilot of the Minimum Income Standards approach 97
17. Reference budgets as tools for everyday life, evaluation and policy making in Finland 109
18. Belgian reference budgets for social participation and their use for policy purposes 123
19. The development, value and application of budget standards: reflecting on the Australian experience 139
20. Estimating the cost of raising a child in Catalonia through the reference budgets approach 155
21. Measuring poverty in the Netherlands: the generalised reference budget approach 169
22. The Norwegian reference budget 185
23. Minimum budgets for Danish families 197
24. The Swedish Consumer Agency’s calculations of reference values for some of the most common household expense categories 207
25. Cross-national and comparative perspectives
26. The Slovenian experience with three methods for defining the minimum income 227
27. Applying the Minimum Income Standard in diverse national contexts 241
28. The steep and winding road to comparable reference budgets in Europe 255
29. Adequate income in Portugal: a comparison of two estimation methods 271
30. Policy and practice
31. Basic needs budgets in policy and practice 291
32. Establishing a national standard: the role of the UK’s Minimum Income Standard in policy and practice 307
33. Minimum Income Standards in the Basic Income debate 319
34. Conclusions
35. Minimum income standards and reference budgets: past, present, future? 333
36. Index 345