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The choice of papers from outside Germany in this volume is not entirely surprising: Ireland as the country with the most advanced poverty-targeting system; and Tony Atkinson reflecting on his and colleagues’ recommendations for coordinating the monitoring of social indicators across the EU. But it is also useful to have a paper from Great Britain reflecting our experience of monitoring poverty and social exclusion in recent years — sadly, we have had such a high level of poverty and social exclusion to monitor.
The author is grateful to the Economic and Social Research Council for funding the research on which this paper is based as part of its support for CASE.
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Hills, J. (2003). The Case of Great Britain: Monitoring Poverty and Social Exclusion. In: Hauser, R., Becker, I. (eds) Reporting on Income Distribution and Poverty. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-05254-9_8
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