Egypt also led to a decrease in poverty, mostly from the flagship Tamween program. Poverty and inequality could be reduced …. The large gap between the government's expenditures and revenues helps explain the positive outcomes on poverty and …

Absolute poverty has dropped markedly in Bulgaria but income inequality has increased substantially in the aftermath of …

The goals of ending extreme poverty by 2030 and working toward a more equal distribution of income are prominent in … countries comprising 97 percent of the world's population, this paper simulates a set of scenarios for global poverty from 2018 … poverty and inequality goals. The paper uses different assumptions about growth incidence curves to model changes in …

sheds light on the relationship between poverty and agriculture as part of the process of structural transformation. It … regional level where the Common Agricultural Program funding tends to go, poverty-wise, within each country. This approach …

must not lose sight of the critical redistributive role of the fiscal system, particularly its impact on poverty and … and poverty in Albania, assessing the individual and combined effects of taxes and public social spending. The findings … show that the fiscal system in Albania plays a positive role in reducing inequality. Yet, it has a moderate poverty …

growth in mean incomes and changes in the distribution of relative incomes to reductions in absolute poverty, and, in turn …, examines the role of income inequality for poverty reduction. The analysis finds that the assumption that income is log … poverty reduction are calculated. The inequality elasticity of poverty reduction is larger, on average, compared to the …

The challenges associated with poverty measurement with a cardinal variable have received due attention during the last … four decades, but there is a dearth of literature studying how to meaningfully assess poverty with an ordinal variable …. This paper first proposes a class of simple, intuitive and policy-relevant poverty measures for ordinal variables. These …