Minimum Income Standards and Reference Budgets

Foreword ~ 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 ~ Berenice 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 Cusso-Parcerisas, Elena Carrillo Alvarez and Jordi Riera Romani;
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 Harvik 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 Goedeme;
Adequate income in Portugal: a comparison of two estimation methods ~ Jose A. Pereirinha, Elvira Pereira, Francisco Branco, Dalia Costa and Ines 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.