In the context of a sharp rise in the incidence of poverty and increasing inequality since the end of the last decade …, labour markets, and poverty and inequality are assessed using a top-down static CGE, a microsimulation approach. It is shown … reduction of poverty incidences, poverty gaps and the severity of poverty exclusively due to the introduction of the personal …

This study applies the regression-based inequality decomposition technique to explain poverty and inequality trends in …; disparities in income inequality between male- and female-headed households are largely explained by education, the share of … gender-based inequality in Cameroon. …

consumption, and an increase in poverty. We thus recommend a gradual approach to tax reform that can make the adjustment process …

attendance, poverty, inequality and adult labour supply. Our ex-ante estimated effects indicate that teenage school attendance … intensity and severity of poverty. Effects on poverty incidence and inequality are of small magnitude. Finally, the transfer may … in 2008. The program is focused on children aged 0 to 18 and aims at alleviating poverty and promoting school attendance …

DAD is designed to facilitate the analysis and the comparisons of social welfare, inequality, poverty and equity across … reforms to these programs) on poverty and equity. …

In this paper we provide a set of rules that can be used to check poverty or inequality dominance using discrete data …

incidence) nor actually relate poverty indices to fiscal impact. This paper jointly and separately examines the redistributive … and poverty effects of the tax and transfer (education and health) systems in Cameroon. Broadly speaking, the tax system … to reduce inequality. Interestingly, while overall public spending on education and health are most progressive in rural …

This paper aims to analyse trends in poverty and inequality in seven African countries using an asset index constructed … rural areas, are thus required. Overall poverty has declined in five of the seven countries. The trends in urban and rural … poverty for the most part mirror these trends in overall poverty. Five of the seven countries experienced an improvement in …

that access to land does not help the poor escape poverty. Complementary to the inequality and poverty profiles constructed …. We use the 2001 Haiti Living Conditions Survey for distributive analysis and poverty assessment to try to make manifest … inequality by multiple factor components. Also, we estimate a polychotomous ordered logic to investigate the risk of being …

tariffs favours export-oriented sectors and all imports increase. Poverty falls in the economy while inequality hardly changes …The paper uses a micro-simulation computable general equilibrium (CGE) model to study the impact on poverty of trade … liberalisation in Zimbabwe. The model incorporates 14006 households derived from the 1995 Poverty Assessment Study Survey (PASS). The …