David Piachaud

CASE Visiting Professor and Emeritus Professor of Social Policy and India Observatory Associate

Email:

d.piachaud@lse.ac.uk

Room:

LSE

Links:

CASE

Biography

David Piachaud's current research interests are:

Poverty, Inequality and Social Security

Latest

STICERD Work in Progress Seminars

The role of markets and governments in sustaining, increasing and reducing inequality

20 January 2017

David Piachaud (Department of Social Policy, LSE and CASE)

CASEpapers

Citizen's Income: Rights and Wrongs

01 December 2016

David Piachaud

A Citizen’s Income, or a Basic Income, is not a new idea but it has been receiving increasing attention. There is confusion about the idea and an attempt is made to distinguish different concepts. Then a full Citizen’s I... Read more...

CASE Social Exclusion Seminars

Citizen’s Income: Rights and Wrongs

09 November 2016

David Piachaud (Department of Social Policy, LSE and CASE)

Welfare State Programme Discussion Papers

Designed for the Poor - Poorer by Design? The Effects of the 1986 Social Security Acton Family Incomes

01 August 2015

Martin Evans, David Piachaud and Holly Sutherland

STICERD Work in Progress Seminars

Social Protection, Redistribution and Economic Growth

02 March 2011

David Piachaud (Department of Social Policy, LSE and CASE)

CASE Social Exclusion Seminars

Reducing health inequalities: Areas, benefits and social exclusion (based on the Marmot Review)

07 October 2009

David Piachaud (Department of Social Policy, LSE and CASE)

CASE Welfare Policy and Analysis Seminars

Cash, care and child poverty

20 February 2008

David Piachaud (Department of Social Policy, LSE and CASE)

CASEpapers

Freedom to be a Child: Commercial Pressures on Children

01 July 2007

David Piachaud

Children’s lives have been transformed over the past century. Family incomes have increased, children lead more solitary lives, attitudes to childhood have changed, new products have been developed and commercial pressur... Read more...

STICERD Work in Progress Seminars

On the persistence of Inequality.

25 May 2005

David Piachaud (Department of Social Policy, LSE and CASE)

CASEpapers

Poverty and Inequality and Social Policy in China

01 November 2004

Bingqin Li and David Piachaud

Despite prolonged economic growth, poverty has become a more notable and noted feature of Chinese society. The paper examines three phases of development since the foundation of the People’s Republic: the central plannin... Read more...

CASEpapers

Changing Poverty Post-1997

01 December 2002

David Piachaud and Holly Sutherland

The paper analyses changes in poverty in Britain since 1997. A poverty level of 60 percent of median equivalised income is used. The first part examines the changes that occurred between 1996/7 and 2000/1 as shown by the... Read more...

CASEpapers

Capital and the Determinants of Poverty and Social Exclusion

01 September 2002

David Piachaud

Types of capital which determine the ability of individuals, of communities and of nations to avoid poverty and social exclusion are analysed. This analysis draws on changing explanations of economic growth and the recen... Read more...

CASE Social Exclusion Seminars

Social Capital, Human Capital and Social Exclusion

27 February 2002

David Piachaud (Department of Social Policy, LSE and CASE)

CASEpapers

How Effective is the British Government's Attempt to Reduce Child Poverty?

01 March 2000

David Piachaud and Holly Sutherland

The new Labour Government in Britain has made the reduction of child poverty one of its central objectives. This paper describes the specific initiatives involved in Labour's approach and weighs them up in terms of their... Read more...

CASEreports

Welfare Reform: Learning from American Mistakes? Report of a seminar organised by LSE Housing and CASE

01 November 1998

John Hills, Geoff Mulgan, David Piachaud and William Julius Wilson

Welfare State Programme Discussion Papers

European Social Policy: Models and Rationales (Journal of European Social Policy, 3(1), 1993)

01 January 1993

Mark Kleinman and David Piachaud