, administrative tax records, and national account aggregates. It assembles comprehensive data on formal income for high-income … percent of the total income over the period, placing Honduras among the most unequal countries in the world. Undistributed … corporate profits are the overwhelming income source at the very top of the distribution, highlighting its importance in the …

The author addresses two issues. First, how can health inequalities be measured so as to take into account policymakers … information on health inequality be combined with information on the mean of the relevant distribution to obtain an overall … measure of health "achievement?" Applying the approach developed by Wagstaff shows how much worse some countries perform when …

Turkey's poverty reduction performance in the 2000s has been remarkably consistent. Extreme and moderate poverty have … fallen considerably since 2003. Between 2002 and 2011, extreme poverty fell from 13 percent to 5 percent, while moderate … poverty halved from 44 percent to 22 percent (respectively, defined using the World Bank's Europe and Central Asia regional …

must not lose sight of the critical redistributive role of the fiscal system, particularly its impact on poverty and … inequality. Using household survey data, this paper estimates the redistributive effect of fiscal policy on income distribution … and poverty in Albania, assessing the individual and combined effects of taxes and public social spending. The findings …

This study carries out a thorough investigation of the potential sources of mismatch in poverty and inequality levels … the following. First, the difference in poverty levels between the Household Budget Survey and the National Panel Survey … is essentially explained by the differences in the methods of estimating the poverty line. Second, the discrepancy in …

, by the United Nations in 2015 should strengthen the focus of development interventions and cooperation on the income … growth of the bottom 40 percent of the income distribution (the bottom 40). However, little is known about within …

. However, fiscal policy also increases poverty in three ways: (1) there is a relatively low level of targeted, direct … households would help fiscal policy achieve poverty reduction and even greater inequality reduction. If subsidies on fuel … Transfer program's coverage and benefit levels, the impact of fiscal policy on poverty would likely be muted. In 2015, Zambia …

This paper describes the impact of fiscal policy on inequality and poverty, and examines recent policy changes and … reduce poverty, especially for families with children and retirees. Beginning in the second decile, households are net payers … of lower value-added taxes on electricity and utility bills is expected to be slightly poverty reducing, this effect is …