) whereby narrow targeting of social transfers aimed at increasing their redistributive (poverty) impact has the perverse effect … recent decades. Our analysis is embedded in the standard social welfare framework, which allows for an integrated and …

This paper presents findings on the changing effectiveness of cash transfers and income taxes on inequality and poverty … and inequality. The strength of the relationship varies between countries and in some cases between the all age and the …

-ordering introduced by S.R. Chakravarty (Keio Economic Studies 34 (1997), 17-32) for making welfare comparisons based on the absence of … deprivation. We show that the non-deprivation quasi-ordering obeys a weaker version of the principle of transfers: welfare … individuals and allocated to one arbitrary poorer individual. We identify the subclass of extended Gini social welfare functions …

occurred along the income distribution, and reversed increases in inequality. A notable shortcoming across many countries was … countries fails to verify "path dependency" claims about how welfare state regimes differ, and how their responses to income … shocks might vary; instead I find support for predictions of a convergence in welfare state policy. …

episodes in order to prevent rising income inequality. …

consumption distribution, poverty and inequality for the world and specific country aggregates. …

The relationship between income inequality and polarization is an empirical fact: a change in equality might occur … together with a change in polarization. At the same time, polarization might emerge while inequality remains constant. The … evidence does not unambiguously suggest an increasing effectiveness of the equalizing role of the welfare state. Nonetheless …