argue that conventional wisdom may be wrong. First, the extent and effectiveness of income redistribution and poverty …

We apply a standard tax and benefit incidence analysis to estimate the impact on inequality and poverty of direct taxes …. The impact of transfers on inequality and poverty reduction could be higher if spending on direct cash transfers that are …

The aim of this paper is to explain why poverty and material deprivation in South Africa are significantly higher among … those of African descent than among whites. To do so, we estimate the conditional levels of poverty and deprivation Africans … show that the racial gap in poverty and deprivation can be attributed to the cumulative disadvantaged characteristics of …

poverty by more than if all incomes were growing equiproportionately. Inequality reduction is not generally seen as either … detail the properties of inequality reduction and pro-poorness, using the Watts poverty index and Gini inequality index, when …

continuing controversy in India over poverty lines, we use a framework that rigorously assesses the impact of growth on the poor … over a range of poverty lines. Using National Sample Surveys on consumption expenditure, we show that while growth has …

poverty by more than if all incomes were growing equiproportionately. Inequality reduction is not generally seen as either … has sometimes been assumed in order to determine analytically the poverty effects of income growth. We show that in a …

This paper investigates the influence of invariance axioms in the decomposition of observed poverty variations into …