compared with realized poverty estimates. The micro-simulation model performs well in predicting poverty dynamics during 2009 …The continued poverty impact of the financial crisis in Serbia is difficult to establish beyond 2010 because of the … lack of survey data. This paper tackles this difficulty. It uses a micro-simulation approach that accounts for a key …

better place to weather such a severe crisis. The impact on poverty would be considerably lower, inequality would not change ….5 percent and the proportion of people living below the poverty line doubled in just two years. It took almost 10 years for the … poverty rate to recover to its pre-crisis level. This paper uses a macro-micro simulation technique to simulate the impact of …

This paper quantifies the contributions to poverty reduction observed in Sri Lanka between 2002 and 2012/13. The …, labor, and non-labor incomes in explaining poverty reduction. The findings show that the most important contributor to … poverty reduction was growth in labor income, stemming from an increase in the returns to salaried nonfarm workers and higher …

partially compensate many losers from the crisis, and reduced extreme poverty …

combined effect of taxes and social spending helped substantially to reduce poverty and inequality in Poland in 2014, in line … poverty, inequality, and the potential fiscal cost are presented. The simulations show that there are potential efficiency …This paper assesses the impact of fiscal policy on the incidence, depth, and severity of poverty, and examines whether …

reducing income inequality; and (iii) in countries where fiscal redistribution is significant, it is achieved mostly through …Income inequality in Latin America ranks among the highest in the world. It can be traced back to the unequal … distribution of assets (especially land and education) in the region. But the extent to which asset inequality translates into …

, microsimulation models (both the envelope and discrete choice models), computable general equilibrium modeling, and approaches that … link computable general equilibrium models to microsimulation models. Explicit modeling facilitates the construction of …

inequality faced by most countries. The question studied in this paper is: How do international policies on aid, trade, and … terms of changes in standard inequality measures, it is of some importance for the lowest decile of the world's income … with extending this analysis of redistribution to other forms of international factor flows-more specifically, migrant …

It is acknowledged that the lack of any systematic link between growth and income inequality does not necessarily mean … devised to decompose the redistributive effect of a tax to analyze the extent to which vertical redistribution associated with … changing incomes over time is offset or reinforced by horizontal redistribution and re-ranking. He uses panel data from China …