. Then, it elaborates on more granular tax policy, discussing key choices in the structure of the personal income tax on … labor and capital income, taxes on wealth, the corporate income tax, and consumption taxes. The paper concludes by …

We analyze microdata from Mexico's survey on household income and expenditures (ENIGH) to study the evolution of income …

Addressing the poverty and distributional impacts of carbon pricing reforms is critical for the success of ambitious … which carbon pricing can potentially affect poverty and inequality. It finds that the channels differ in important ways …

detrimental medium-term effects on output, unemployment, poverty, and inequality. However, policies can go a long way toward … relatively greater fiscal support. The increases in unemployment, poverty, and inequality are likewise lower for countries with …

decline in earnings, extreme poverty and the Gini coefficient based on labor income increased by around 9.2 and 5 percentage … than offset the labor income losses for the bottom four deciles, however, such that poverty relative to the pre … and hospitality, suffered large job losses and reductions in hours. Given low income workers experienced the largest …

Poverty has remained widespread in Mozambique, mostly on account of the prevalent war situation. This paper provides a … profile of the lowest income groups in Mozambique and examines how they were affected by the economic recovery program of 1986 … relative income position. However, in the presence of a large refugee population and war-related destruction, there continues …

Is there a tradeoff between raising growth and reducing inequality and poverty? This paper reviews the theoretical and … empirical literature on the complex links between growth, inequality, and poverty, with causation going in both directions. The … evidence suggests that growth can be effective in reducing poverty, but its impact on inequality is ambiguous and depends on …

As labor has become more mobile in today''s world, it is important to understand the income and welfare of nationals … migration, and calculates them using New Zealand data. Growth performance measured by New Zealanders'' income has been clearly …