in Colombia and Peru. Relying on household survey data, we simulate the potential impact of the transfer on poverty … Nested Logit Model. Our results show that a NCP in Colombia and Peru contributes to the reduction of poverty and inequality …

-record data sets for multiple countries, in addition to providing summary statistics from those data, including poverty and … addressed by a truly global micro-data base for studying poverty and inequality. …

The aim of this paper is to explain why poverty and material deprivation in South Africa are significantly higher among … those of African descent than among whites. To do so, we estimate the conditional levels of poverty and deprivation Africans … show that the racial gap in poverty and deprivation can be attributed to the cumulative disadvantaged characteristics of …

Fiscal policy can change poverty and inequality substantially or slightly depending on the government’s redistributive … independent evaluations. CEQ relies on inequality, poverty and tax and benefit incidence analyses. …

Inequality and poverty fell sharply in many Latin American countries during a decade in which voters in ten countries … econometric evidence that social democratic regimes in Brazil and Chile were more successful at reducing inequality and poverty … are a return to “normal” levels (as estimated by fixed effects). Conversely, inequality and poverty in Brazil and Chile …

poverty by more than if all incomes were growing equiproportionately. Inequality reduction is not generally seen as either … detail the properties of inequality reduction and pro-poorness, using the Watts poverty index and Gini inequality index, when …

continuing controversy in India over poverty lines, we use a framework that rigorously assesses the impact of growth on the poor … over a range of poverty lines. Using National Sample Surveys on consumption expenditure, we show that while growth has …

Arab population. Based on the Galilee Society's social survey for 2004 Israeli Arab poverty incidence was found to be 52 …% with nearly two thirds in persistent poverty. Among Bedouins in villages unrecognized by the Israeli government it was … nearly 80% with poverty severity about 7 times higher than that of the mainstream Jewish population in Israel, i.e. excluding …