Project on Minimum Income Protection Indicators (MIPI)

Several teams within Equalsoc are simultaneously starting or continuating projects on indicators of minimum income protection and its measurement. The aim of the working group is to coordinate these efforts and to generate complementarities and synergies. In a first phaze, the working group would enable the teams: a) to draw on each others expertise in the design and construction of indicators and to accommodate mutual learning b) to avoid overlaps and to divide up work in a well-coordinated way c) to achieve economies of scale (given the fixed costs attached to data gathering via expert networks). In later stages the working group will move on to the analysis of a) the determinants of cross-country differences in the institutional design and level of minimum income protection and b) the explanatory power of these differences if it comes to accounting poverty outcomes.