This paper reviews the long run developments in the distribution of personal income and wealth. It also discusses … the distribution of income and wealth over time? Are there common trends across countries or over the path of development …-called top income literature and new evidence on wealth concentration. The picture that emerges shows that inequality was …

successful in alleviating inequality and poverty. Focussing on taxes and cash transfers, this paper investigates the impact of … inequality and poverty. We present BRAHMS, a new tax-benefit microsimulation model for Brazil and illustrate its use by …

recent economic research on the welfare state and anti-poverty policy in rich countries, and explore their implications. We … begin with the conceptualisation and measurement of poverty, before sketching out some core features and approaches to the … welfare state and anti-poverty policies. We then focus on the central plank of the modern welfare state's efforts to address …

If redistribution is distortionary, and if the income of skilled workers is due to knowledgeintensive activities and … reduction reduces statis inefficiency. On the other hand, standard redistribution also reduces the level of R and D because it … that standard redistribution always dominates limitations to IPRs. …

, there is little reliable evidence on how the inclusion of such non-cash income actually affects poverty and inequality … and poverty rates by almost one-third. However, adjusting for differences in needs for public services across population … subgroups offsets about half the inequality reduction and some of the poverty decrease. …

is evidence about real income levels and inequality, and the prevalence of affluence and of poverty. …

poverty reduction: helping the poor earn more in the labour market for the work they do, so that they can buy the goods and … services they need to move up out of poverty. …