This paper analyses the effectiveness of tax-benefit systems in reducing poverty and inequality across 13 countries in … to poverty and inequality. Additionally, we assess gender disparities in outcomes, quantify the distributional effects of …

dramatic increase in income poverty and inequality between December 2019 and June 2020. The poverty rate, measured with the … cent. Inequality measured by the Gini coefficient increases substantially from 0.461 to 0.592. On average, household …

-benefit policies stabilized earnings losses. We then evaluate the impact on income-based poverty and inequality and the contribution of … inequality, and somewhat larger effects on the poverty gap due to lower relative earnings losses of the poor population at the …

learn from each other to improve social protection and reduce inequality. …