, reaching lower middle-income status in 2010. In line with rapid economic growth, Vietnam has achieved impressive progress … towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) during this time. This paper sheds light on some elements of Vietnam … remaining SDGs in Vietnam will be a challenge, with total annual additional spending needs in the 5 subsectors estimated at 7 …

Is there a one-size-fits-all approach to inclusive growth? We look at four key case studies across advanced and … countries the key components of inclusive growth models, outcomes from these models, and the road ahead in the respective … role of social assistance and commodity boom in Brazil, and the inequality puzzle in Egypt. The paper finds that there is a …

to significant and persistent reductions in disposable income, along with increases in unemployment, income inequality …, which be associated with an increase in poverty of about 75 million people. Policy responses more effective than those in …

Absolute poverty has dropped markedly in Bulgaria but income inequality has increased substantially in the aftermath of … the GFC. This increase is due to a rise in market income inequality that was compounded by a reduction in fiscal … redistributive efficiency. The COVID-19 crisis is likely to deepen income inequality, increasing the room for redistributive policies …

of estimated wages. This paper shows that employment growth does not necessarily result in lower relative poverty shares …At the European level and in most EU member states, higher employment levels are seen as key to better poverty outcomes … rising employment on relative income poverty. This method has serious limitations. We propose a more sophisticated simulation …

We evaluate progress in President's Johnson's War on Poverty. We do so relative to the scientifically arbitrary but … policy relevant 20 percent baseline poverty rate he established for 1963. No existing poverty measure fully captures poverty … reductions based on the standard that President Johnson set. To fill this gap, we develop a Full-income Poverty Measure with …