In contrast with the rest of Latin America and the Caribbean, Brazil's poverty rate is estimated to have decreased …. This apparent paradox can be mostly explained by the way in which poverty and FI are measured: Measurements of poverty are …, uncompensated loss of a job or reduction of benefits (such as AE) can turn into the loss of a household's ability to feed itself in …

This poverty synthesis notes documents Myanmar's poverty reduction progress leading to the COVID-19 crisis, and setback … to these gains brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic and coup. The note aims to extract lessons from the Myanmar Poverty … Assessment and the World Bank High-Frequency Phone Surveys. Analysis of welfare trends and drivers of poverty changes draws from …

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 …

2007, on tax incidence and poverty in Uruguay. The essence of the reform is the introduction of a dual personal income tax …The Poverty and Social Impact Assessment (PSIA) analyzes the impact of the tax reform, which came into effect in July …, which taxes labor income at progressive rates and capital income at lower, proportional rates. A further modification is the …

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 …