@techreport{discovery14845, address = {London, UK}, month = {February}, publisher = {Institute for Fiscal Studies}, note = {Please note: this commentary was revised on 24 February 2009 to remove the incorrect assertion in the summary and conclusion that a bad recession would worsen the combined material deprivation and relative income measure of child poverty. Table 3 shows the opposite to be the case. The 2008 Pre-Budget Report (PBR) said that 'the Government will take stock of progress towards its 2010 and 2020 child poverty target in the [2009] Budget'. As background to that exercise, this paper updates our previous analysis of the prospects for child poverty in the UK in 2010-11 and 2020-21.}, year = {2009}, title = {Micro-simulating child poverty in 2010 and 2020}, number = {C108}, series = {IFS Commentaries}, abstract = {The 2008 Pre-Budget Report (PBR) said that 'the Government will take stock of progress towards its 2010 and 2020 child poverty target in the [2009] Budget'. As background to that exercise, this paper updates our previous analysis of the prospects for child poverty in the UK in 2010-11 and 2020-21.}, url = {http://www.ifs.org.uk/publications/browse/type/co}, author = {Brewer, M. and Browne, J. and Joyce, R. and Sutherland, H.} }