on poverty reduction and income redistribution. We also present a static microsimulation to analyse the potential impacts …, intensity, and severity of poverty are, in the best of cases, moderate and, although their progressivity is high, their …

redistributive impact of Mexico's fiscal system over this period. It presents standard and marginal benefit incidence analysis for …

Income inequality in Mexico increased between 1989 and 1994; between 1994 and 2006, inequality declined; and, between … 2006 and 2014, inequality was again on the rise. We apply decomposition techniques to analyse the proximate determinants of … labour income inequality and fiscal incidence analysis to estimate the first-order effects of taxes and social spending on …

This paper examines the measurement of social welfare, poverty and inequality taking into account features that have … the differences between standard poverty and inequality measures based on observed income and measures that are calculated …

This paper reviews the pattern of poverty rates and income inequality in El Salvador since the 1990s. It discusses some … of the likely factors that explain the reduction in income inequality that has taken place in the country in the last …

In the presence of inequality a status-driven utility function reconciles the conflict between income-based and … nutrition-based measures of poverty. Moreover, it can explain why the poor tend to save less, an established empirical fact in …

involved, of the difficulties which can arise in the measurement of poverty and inequality when one compares populations of …. Complications arising from both the poverty and inequality rankings of distributions when the aggregate size of the population is … and ethical appeal, there are problems involved in variable population comparisons of poverty and inequality which deserve …

story. While in the majority of countries growth was the major factor behind falling or increasing poverty, inequality …, high initial levels of inequality limit the effectiveness of growth in reducing poverty while growing inequality reduces …The study presents recent global evidence on the transformation of economic growth to poverty reduction in developing …

insurance in the 1990s and the growth of social assistance in the 2000s, and assesses their effects on poverty and inequality …

approach is also employed to rigorously examine the poverty-growth-inequality triangle. Finally, various simple but useful and …Measuring poverty remains a complex and contentious issue. This is particularly true in sub-Saharan Africa where … poverty rates are higher, information bases typically weaker, and the underlying determinants of welfare relatively volatile …