Phone: +61 (02) 9385 7806
Email: p.saunders@unsw.edu.au

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Research Areas:

Research interests include the measurement, causes and consequences of poverty; budget standards and household needs; income distribution and economic inequality; economic aspects of social security; social policy and the welfare state; comparative social policy, including in OECD and East Asian countries; public finance, including taxation policy and the role of government in the economy; international comparisons of government size and economic performance.

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Recent Books

Saunders, P. (2005), The Poverty Wars: Reconnecting Research with Reality, UNSW Press.

Saunders, P., (ed) (2005), Welfare to Work in Practice. Social Security and Participation in Economic and Social Life, International Studies on Social Security, Volume 10, Ashgate, Aldershot, 2005.

Saunders, P. and J. Walter, (eds) (2005), Ideas and Influence. Social Science and Public Policy in Australia.

Saunders, Peter and Richard Taylor, eds. (2002) The Price of Prosperity:
The Economic and Social Costs of Unemployment (publication details)

Saunders, Peter (2002), The Ends and Means of Welfare:
Coping with Economic and Social Change in Australia (publication details)

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