Sweden has a remarkable record in reducing inequality and virtually eliminating poverty. This paper shows that: 1 …) Sweden achieved its egalitarian income distribution and eliminated poverty largely because of its system of earnings and …

In developing countries, identifying the poor for redistribution or social insurance is challenging because the … to poorest. When poverty is defined using per-capita expenditure and the common PPP$2 per day threshold, we find that … poverty: the results of community-based methods are more correlated with how individual community members rank each other and …

We use unique data from 600 Indonesian communities on what individuals know about the poverty status of others to study …

matched March CPS surveys, focusing on the effectiveness of minimum wages in reducing poverty. The results show that over a … one-to-two year period, minimum wages increase both the probability that poor families escape poverty and the probability … that previously non-poor families fall into poverty. The estimated increase in the number of non-poor families that fall …

This paper investigates monetary policy's influence on poverty and inequality in both the short run and the long run …

Building on the existing literature that examines the extent of redistribution in the Social Security system as a whole … inequality. Second, we find that this result is driven largely by the lack of redistribution across the middle and upper part of … distribution. Third, in cases where redistribution does occur, we find it is not efficiently targeted: many high income households …

Even relatively poor people oppose high rates of redistribution because of the anticipation that they or their children … in large-scale expropriation and highly progressive redistribution. But is it compatible with everyone -- especially the …

Many developing country governments determine eligibility for anti-poverty programs using censuses of household assets … Indonesia where, in randomly selected provinces, the government added questions on flat-screen televisions and cell-phone SIM …