“Joseph
Rowntree Foundation is an endowed foundation funding UK-wide research and
development work. We have begun a major new programme to develop an
anti-poverty strategy for the UK – costed, based on the best international
evidence and politically-balanced. A fundamental part of this programme is to
use and build simulation models of poverty to test out, refine and demonstrate
the impact of our strategies. One of the main problems with previous strategies
is that they do not demonstrate how policies might achieve the desired targets.
Through the use of models, we aim to at least show in theory that the
strategies would have an impact. We are very pleased to have gained the
expertise of two external operational researchers through the Pro Bono OR
scheme, who will be giving JRF and the research teams their independent and
expert advice as we commission and use the poverty models in 2014 and 2015.”
Chris Goulden - Head of Poverty
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