Proponents of a basic income (BI) claim that it could bring significant reductions in financial poverty, on top of many … other benefits, including greatly reduced administrative complexity and cost. Using microsimulation analysis in a … comparative two-country setting, we show that the potential poverty-reducing impact of BI strongly depends on exactly how and …

the resulting fiscal and distributional effects in a comparative context, undertake a microsimulation study to quantify … income poverty. …

the least as an ironclad protection against poverty, if set high enough. It is hard to know with any certainty what a … likely first-round impacts. Neither the insights we get from (quasi-)experimental research nor those from (micro-)simulation … modelling are very encouraging. The estimated first-round effects on poverty are for the most part disappointing, especially in …

developing countries and highlights the role of microsimulation techniques to characterize how different African countries can … learn from each other to improve social protection and reduce inequality. …

Despite a rich literature studying the impact of inequality on policy outcomes, there has been limited effort to bring …

Tony Atkinson is universally celebrated for his outstanding contributions to the measurement and analysis of inequality …, but he never saw the study of inequality as a separate branch of economics. He was an economist in the classical sense …

Until recently, poverty was a relatively unexplored field of studies in Turkey. This is one of the first attempts … picture of poverty and its main driving forces. The 1994 data remain until today the latest household level data available for … Turkey. The paper finds that Turkey does not face a problem of absolute poverty by the standards of a developing country (in …

analyzes the potential effects of fuel prices on poverty and inequality in Paraguay. Using microsimulation methods and based on … the Commitment to Equity framework, it estimates the impact of higher fuel prices on welfare, poverty, and inequality …The recent global increases in fuel prices threaten the gains in poverty reduction that countries like Paraguay have …

of fiscal policy interventions on inequality and poverty. Specifically, we analyze the distributional incidence of direct … to poverty reduction and are almost neutral in their distributive impact. The results contribute to the understanding of …

The labor market is the main channel through which economic growth affects poverty. This paper is the first empirical …-scale agriculture. Informalization has dampened the impact of the crisis and served to protect the poor, stabilizing the poverty rate at …