poverty and income inequality have invited increasing volumes of research focusing on the nexus between equity and efficient … into a middle income country (ADB, 2014). This has stimulated the need to understand causes of inequality and poverty for … poverty because they will substantially undermine the economic growth if left unchecked (ADB, 2014). The objective of this …

Recent discussions about rising inequality in industrialized countries have triggered calls for more government … intervention and redistribution. Due to obvious behavioral effects caused by redistribution, it is however not clear whether … redistributional policies are indeed able to combat inequality. This paper contributes to this relevant research question by using …

health and survival. But equal rates of growth often deliver unequal rates of poverty reduction and absolute deprivation is … income, indicating the size of survival gains from redistribution in favour of households below the poverty line. The poverty …A recent literature highlights the uncertainty concerning whether economic growth has any causal protective effect on …

China's rapid growth was fueled by substantial physical capital investments applied to a large stock of medium skilled … education characteristic of the pre-reform era has given rise to substantial inequality in access to higher levels of education …. China's growth will be fostered by expanding access to all levels of education, reducing impediments to labor mobility, and …

successful in alleviating inequality and poverty. Focussing on taxes and cash transfers, this paper investigates the impact of … inequality and poverty. We present BRAHMS, a new tax-benefit microsimulation model for Brazil and illustrate its use by … evaluating the impact of policy on economic inequality. It is argued that microsimulation provides a valuable analytical tool for …

This paper studies differences in inequality perceptions, distributional norms, and redistributive preferences between …. Surprisingly, however, differences in distributional norms are much smaller than differences with respect to inequality perceptions … redistribution and progressive taxation, and less likely to have a conservative political orientation, even conditional on having the …

can be concluded that both taxes and transfers reduce inequality of opportunities, with social benefits typically playing … the key role. Furthermore, the equalizing impacts of the tax benefit system on inequality of opportunity differ … substantially from the ones observed when referring to the traditional notion of inequality of outcomes …

actual income inequality. Using several unique measures of progressivity over the 1981-2005 period for a large panel of … countries, we find that progressivity reduces inequality in observed income, but has a significantly smaller impact on actual … inequality, approximated by consumption-based GINIs. We show empirically that the differential effect on observed vs. actual …

which this ratio increases coincide with those in which Democrats rule the government and there is more redistribution from … the power are characterized by a fall in the ratio and less redistribution from the rich to the rest of the population …

Partnering with a savings product provider in Kenya, we tested the extent to which behavioral interventions and …