speed up the decline in inequality levels and reduce poverty. This study presents an exhaustive and comprehensive analysis …

Fiscal policy is central to not only macroeconomic stability and growth, but also to poverty and inequality reduction … Turkey's achievements against peer countries. The results show that fiscal policy significantly reduces income inequality in … countervail the inequality-increasing impact of indirect taxes. At the bottom of the income distribution, targeted transfers are …

transfers. The findings show that the system is progressive and contributes to reductions in poverty and inequality. The Gini …

, decreasing the Gini inequality index by 21 percentage points, and the official measure of poverty incidence by 27.6 percentage …

inequality. To reduce the incidence of low-quality jobs, tax policy interventions should go hand in hand with more effective …

inequality, with government expenditures in the form of in-kind transfers leading to the largest decreases. While expenditures in …

comparable methodology yields the following results. Direct taxes and cash transfers reduce inequality and poverty by nontrivial … at government costs, they reduce inequality in all countries by considerably more than cash transfers, reflecting their …