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 …

declined by four percentage points (or 15 percent) within six months of program rollout, and the poverty headcount at the …

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 …

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 … (the child money program and the mortgage subsidy) do little redistribution-the latter is actually regressive-but represent …

assess the effects of government taxation and social spending on poverty and inequality in Moldova. The paper presents the … contribution of different taxes and transfers to poverty and inequality reduction in Moldova, as well as the cost-effectiveness of … different taxes and transfers in achieving these poverty and inequality reduction goals. The analysis finds that the tax …

Egypt also led to a decrease in poverty, mostly from the flagship Tamween program. Poverty and inequality could be reduced …. The large gap between the government's expenditures and revenues helps explain the positive outcomes on poverty and …

important policy research issue globally. This paper exploits a novel dataset of 20 years of municipal poverty maps and local … monetary poverty. These results provide important lessons for policy on the effects of earmarked funds to reduce territorial … poverty and inequality in terms of incentives to design formulas to distribute earmarked fiscal resources to subnational …

taxes, as well as direct, indirect, and in-kind transfers. The fiscal system in Ukraine has high redistribution effects …, decreasing the Gini inequality index by 21 percentage points, and the official measure of poverty incidence by 27.6 percentage … are the main contributor to the redistribution effect of fiscal policy. However, Ukraine stands out due to the relatively …