Fiscal policy is central to not only macroeconomic stability and growth, but also to poverty and inequality reduction … Turkey's achievements against peer countries. The results show that fiscal policy significantly reduces income inequality in … countervail the inequality-increasing impact of indirect taxes. At the bottom of the income distribution, targeted transfers are …

poverty and inequality goals. The paper uses different assumptions about growth incidence curves to model changes in … the forecasts, suggesting an important role for inequality on the path to eliminating extreme poverty …The goals of ending extreme poverty by 2030 and working toward a more equal distribution of income are prominent 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 …

inequality, with government expenditures in the form of in-kind transfers leading to the largest decreases. While expenditures in …'s fiscal policies also lead to a reduction in poverty, mainly due to well-targeted direct transfers …

households to smaller eligible ones. A sharp decline in inequality is observed in the entire study population: the Gini index … declined by four percentage points (or 15 percent) within six months of program rollout, and the poverty headcount at the …

sustained poverty reduction. In this framework, development is linked to the adoption of an increasing returns to scale … poverty reduction is measured as a continuous decline in the share of the population living below $1.90/day purchasing power … not live in a market large enough to experience sustained poverty reduction. …

transfers. The findings show that the system is progressive and contributes to reductions in poverty and inequality. The Gini ….76 Gini points (around 16 percent). Something similar happens with the poverty rate, which decreases from 47.31 to 31 …

Thousands of scenarios are used to provide updated estimates for the impacts of climate change on extreme poverty in … 2030. The range of the number of people falling into poverty due to climate change is between 32 million and 132 million in … most scenarios. These results are commensurate with available estimates for the global poverty increase due to COVID-19 …