This paper analyses the effectiveness of tax-benefit systems in reducing poverty and inequality across 13 countries in … the Global South. Using national survey data and tax-benefit microsimulation models from the SOUTHMOD project, we provide … to poverty and inequality. Additionally, we assess gender disparities in outcomes, quantify the distributional effects of …

inequality decomposition technique, we show that the rising inequality between 1991 and 2005 was, for the most part, driven by …We examine the drivers of inequality change in Honduras between 1991-2007, trying to understand why inequality …, we document first rising inequality between 1991-2005, which is followed by falling inequality thereafter. Using an …

applying a standard static microsimulation model TAZMOD v1.8. The simulations model two indirect tax reforms involving changes …

, that direct taxes and cash transfers are overall progressive and reduce inequality and poverty. Our disaggregated analyses …

Inequality in Mexico rose between 1989 and 1994 and declined between 1994 and 2010. We examine the role of market … (cash transfers) in explaining changes in inequality. We apply the re-centred influence function method to decompose changes …; institutional factors were not relevant. Government transfers contributed to the decline in inequality, especially after 2000. …

Overall income inequality in South Africa is very high, and inequality generated in the labour market is a key driver … of inequality. In this paper, I use the Post-Apartheid Labour Market Series, the General Household Surveys, and … administrative tax microdata to describe earnings inequality in South Africa. I estimate Gini coefficients, the variance of log …

We analyse the evolution and proximate determinants of labour income inequality in Mexico between 1989 and 2017. Labour … income inequality increased between 1989 and 1994 and declined between 1994 and 2006. What happened after 2006 is subject to … uncertainty. The national labour force survey shows a steady decline and the income expenditure survey suggests that inequality …

This paper assesses the effects on poverty and inequality of the alternative targeting approaches that Zambia's Social …