basic education are benefitting the poorest, expenditures in tertiary education remain largely regressive. The personal … income tax is found to be largely progressive, with the top quintile paying more than four-fifths of this tax. Uruguay …'s fiscal policies also lead to a reduction in poverty, mainly due to well-targeted direct transfers …

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 …

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 …