offset the poverty-reducing impact of cash transfers. When one includes the in-kind transfers in education and health, valued …How much redistribution and poverty reduction is being accomplished in Latin America through social spending, subsidies … comparable methodology yields the following results. Direct taxes and cash transfers reduce inequality and poverty by nontrivial …

argue that conventional wisdom may be wrong. First, the extent and effectiveness of income redistribution and poverty …

Fiscal policy can change poverty and inequality substantially or slightly depending on the government’s redistributive … independent evaluations. CEQ relies on inequality, poverty and tax and benefit incidence analyses. …

Inequality and poverty fell sharply in many Latin American countries during a decade in which voters in ten countries … econometric evidence that social democratic regimes in Brazil and Chile were more successful at reducing inequality and poverty … income, but the social democratic regimes’ efforts were more effective. The left populists regimes such as Argentina and …

The World Bank’s (WB) mission and overarching goal is to reduce poverty. Moving ahead, what can the WB do to enhance … its contribution to the poverty reduction agenda? This question can be answered from at least two perspectives: the WB as … which more and better information and analysis could help move the poverty reduction agenda forward: improving data on …