? national poverty lines and poverty measures, its focus on inclusion of the vulnerable population, and its identification of a … population segment that is neither poor nor at significant risk of falling into poverty. The paper also offers a typology of … United States, and Vietnam for the mid-to-late 2000s. Estimation results comparing the two approaches with measuring the …

This paper assesses the impact of fiscal policy on the incidence, depth, and severity of poverty, and examines whether … combined effect of taxes and social spending helped substantially to reduce poverty and inequality in Poland in 2014, in line … capacity to redistribute, it had a relatively weak capacity to reduce poverty given the resources at its disposal, and this was …

transfers, indirect subsidies, and in-kind transfers) on the level of poverty and inequality in Uganda, using the …-kind transfers, are the biggest contributors to reducing inequality. Although equalizing, fiscal policy is poverty-inducing in Uganda … indirect taxes; the poverty headcount ratio increases by 2.3 percentage points. Going forward, the combination of raising …

improvement in welfare as evidenced by the drastic decline in poverty. Using analytical and empirical methods, the author examines …

and Vietnam over a period when both countries grew spectacularly as they transitioned from planned to market economies … of horizontal redistribution and re-ranking in both China-and to a lesser extent Vietnam-more than offset pro …