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This review of New Zealand and international literature was undertaken as part of the Training Incentive Allowance (TIA) policy review. The TIA programme has many of the features identified in the literature as success factors for policy interventions designed to overcome barriers to participation in education, training and employment (particularly for sole parents and people with disabilities). The TIA can:
? help people overcome identified financial barriers
? allow for flexible participation in a wide range of training and education
? facilitate access to flexible high-quality childc
| Welfare and Poverty: Family Matters It has been twenty-five years since Charles Murray first pointed out what is easily the greatest counter-intuition of social policy in the twentieth century: the expansion of welfare entitlements as part of the "war on poverty" has actually increased the economic vulnerability of those it was intended to help, namely single mothers and children. While this insight has been credited with sparking the revolutionary welfare reforms of the mid-1990s that brought poverty and dependency down to record lows, many of today's social reformers continue to misunderstand the relationship between family status, poverty and welfare. By Sylvia LeRoy for the New Zealand Business Roundtable. | By New Zealand Business Roundtable , Newzealand . | Welfare and Social Security Policy Resource. |
| Measuring Poverty. It is difficult to estimate poverty accurately because the concept of 'poverty' is not easy to define and even once it is defined it is not easy to measure in a way that is true to the definition. This paper surveys the methodological steps required to produce poverty estimates and highlights the limitations or assumptions associated with each step. "An Introduction to Poverty Measurement Issues" by Harry Greenwell, Rachel Lloyd and Ann Harding is published by the NATSEM. | By NATSEM , Australia. | Welfare and Social Security Policy Resource. |
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