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Social policies or private solidarity? The equalizing role of migration and remittances in El Salvador
Acevedo, Carlos; Cabrera, Maynor - 2012
This paper reviews the pattern of poverty rates and income inequality in El Salvador since the 1990s. It discusses some …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319809
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Migration out of poverty: The case of post-war migration in Mozambique
Ibraimo, Maimuna; Egger, Eva-Maria - 2023
migration and multidimensional poverty by applying inverse probability weighted regression adjustment (IPWRA). We find that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014477575
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Evaluating antipoverty transfer programmes in Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa: Better policies? Better politics?
Barrientos, Armando; Villa, Juan M. - 2013
The paper provides a comparative analysis of the incidence of evaluation methods in antipoverty transfer programmes in Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa. The paper identifies two broad explanations for the incidence of evaluation in antipoverty transfer programmes in developing countries, one...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319773
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Drivers of poverty reduction in lagging regions: Evidence from rural Western China
Christiaensen, Luc; Pan, Lei; Wang, Sangui - 2010
Using 2000-04 panel data this study analyses the pathways rural households followed out of poverty in two lagging … poverty reduction. Income transfers and agricultural tax abolishment have helped at the margin. Overall, the findings … highlight that the scope for reducing poverty in lagging rural regions is often substantial in agriculture, also in countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280210
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Structural transformation, inequality, and inclusive growth in China
Li, Yanan; Xing, Chunbing - 2020
its great success in poverty reduction, China has witnessed rapidly increasing income inequality which only began to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012424020
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Migration and the labour market impacts of COVID-19
Barker, Nathan; Davis, C. Austin; López-Peña, Paula; … - 2020
Using detailed microdata, we document how migration-dependent households are especially vulnerable during the COVID-19 pandemic. We create pre- and post-COVID panel datasets for three populations in Bangladesh and Nepal, leveraging experimental and observational variation in prior migration...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012424126
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The role of tax-benefit systems in protecting household incomes in Latin America during the COVID-19 pandemic
Rodriguez, David; Jara, H. Xavier; Dondo, Mariana; … - 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic drastically affected household incomes around the world. In developed economies, pre-pandemic tax-benefit policies and emergency transfers mitigated to a large extent the negative income shock. However, less is known about the effect of government intervention on household...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014322624
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Income redistribution in Latin America: A microsimulation approach
Arancibia Romero, Cristina; Dondo, Mariana; Jara, H. Xavier - 2019
importance of tax-benefit instruments across countries and on the effect of taxes and benefits on poverty and inequality. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012146488
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Taxation and inequality in developing countries: Lessons from the recent experience of Latin America
Martorano, Bruno - 2016
This paper aims to advance understanding about the relationship between taxation and inequality in developing countries, focusing on the recent experience of Latin America. Although the tax system was regressive in the 1990s, tax changes promoted equality in the first decade of the 2000s. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653911
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The growth-employment-poverty nexus in Latin America in the 2000s: Ecuador country study
Cruces, Guillermo; Fields, Gary; Jaume, David; Viollaz, … - 2015
was labour earnings for some employment categories. With the onset of the crisis of 2008, the poverty rate stopped falling …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011418557