Colombia has reduced extreme poverty in the past 16 years by almost half, moderate poverty by 22 percentage points, and … made more than four million Colombians jump the threshold of multidimensional poverty. However, it remains one of the most … speed up the decline in inequality levels and reduce poverty. This study presents an exhaustive and comprehensive analysis …

Fiscal policy is central to not only macroeconomic stability and growth, but also to poverty and inequality reduction … insufficient to compensate for the effect of taxes, resulting in net increases in poverty. In the context of upper …

The goals of ending extreme poverty by 2030 and working toward a more equal distribution of income are prominent in … countries comprising 97 percent of the world's population, this paper simulates a set of scenarios for global poverty from 2018 … poverty and inequality goals. The paper uses different assumptions about growth incidence curves to model changes in …

This study assesses the redistributive effects of fiscal policy in Mali and Niger. Fiscal policy is poverty increasing … three deciles, respectively). Although existing direct fiscal transfers have poverty-reducing effects, they are too small …

sheds light on the relationship between poverty and agriculture as part of the process of structural transformation. It … regional level where the Common Agricultural Program funding tends to go, poverty-wise, within each country. This approach …

, decreasing the Gini inequality index by 21 percentage points, and the official measure of poverty incidence by 27.6 percentage …

This paper exploits a novel municipal-level data set to explore patterns of convergence in income and poverty in Mexico … during 1992-2014. The paper finds that, despite a context of overall stagnant economic growth and poverty reduction, there is … evidence of income and poverty convergence at the municipal level. The findings suggest that these convergence processes stem …