transfer effect of social programs; and, fourth, it looks at some special issues that impact on poverty, namely unemployment …The present study focuses on four main objectives. First, it presents an update of poverty, and income distribution …, and the problems of indigenous peoples. Given the relatively high levels of unemployment, the persistence in educational …

This report assesses the impact of fiscal policy, both revenue and expenditure, on inequality and poverty in the … Section IV, starting with fiscal policy’s net impact on inequality, followed by its impact on poverty incidence. A comparison …This report assesses the impact of fiscal policy, both revenue and expenditure, on inequality and poverty in the …

household labor income and poverty in Brazil. The authors first estimate the extent of price transmission from world markets to … due to movements out of unemployment. "--World Bank web site …

dataset and methodological approach for evaluating the global poverty and inequality effects of policy reforms. It finds that … liberalization of agriculture and food could increase global extreme poverty (US …