Do family benefits trigger or minimise poverty among large households in FYR Macedonia?

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Poverty among households of two adults with three or more dependent children has been rising continuously in the last three years. This has happened despite the introduction, in 2010, of a very costly universal parental allowance for the third child.

Author: Maja Gerovska Mitev