This paper presents findings on the changing effectiveness of cash transfers and income taxes on inequality and poverty … relationship between the concentration of cash transfers net of direct taxes and their effectiveness in terms of reducing poverty …

) whereby narrow targeting of social transfers aimed at increasing their redistributive (poverty) impact has the perverse effect … of increasing poverty over the medium term due to decreasing public support for such spending. However, empirical support … recent decades. Our analysis is embedded in the standard social welfare framework, which allows for an integrated and …

Many of the world's LDCs are plagued by recurring conflict. Conflict impedes sustainable development through various …-2011) along geographic, religious, ethno-linguistic and economic lines. Poverty and inequality rose throughout the decade. We …

affected the income position of high-income pensioners. However, also the structure of public pension benefits had a poverty …

are (in order of magnitude) left government, family structure, welfare state generosity, unemployment, and employment …

Previous sociological research has overlooked the fact that a welfare state's tax system does not solely redistribute …-related tax characteristics. I apply hierarchical cluster analysis to evaluate the congruence of welfare state classification and … family tax policy. The results show that welfare states with familialization tax policies reduce less horizontal income …