Ecuador experienced moderate economic growth during the 2000s. The economy suffered a mild recession during the … was labour earnings for some employment categories. With the onset of the crisis of 2008, the poverty rate stopped falling …

We analyse vertical and horizontal inequality in Ecuador from a long-run perspective, as well as during and after the … commodities boom. Using various data sources we show that Ecuador has made significant progress in reducing inequality … the trend reversal is consistent with Ecuador's dependency on oil revenues. Once the commodities boom ended, government …

poverty and informality in the country, taking into account the simultaneous two-way relationship between these two phenomena …

Ecuador and the role of tax-benefit policies in mitigating the immediate impact of the economic shocks. Our results show a … dramatic increase in income poverty and inequality between December 2019 and June 2020. The poverty rate, measured with the … national poverty line, goes up from 25.7 to 58.2 per cent over this period and extreme poverty increases from 9.2 to 38.6 per …

We use four novel, cross-country comparable tax-benefit microsimulation models for Ecuador, Ghana, Tanzania, and South … significantly reduce poverty and inequality in settings in which no means-tested old-age pensions exist (such as Ghana and Tanzania … difference for the income distribution if the existing schemes do not reach the entire vulnerable population, such as in Ecuador …

protecting incomes in case of unemployment in Ecuador. We use ECUAMOD, the tax-benefit microsimulation model for Ecuador, to … poverty in case of unemployment and would increase household income stabilization, although to a limited extent. Due to the … scheme in Ecuador, the largest gains would be concentrated among middle-aged male employees at the top of the earnings …

This paper aims to evaluate the progressivity of different fuel subsidies in Ecuador as well as the budgetary and …-benefit microsimulation model for Ecuador, together with representative household microdata from ENIGHUR 2011-12. Our results show that … that eliminating all fuel subsidies would increase poverty and inequality due to the importance of domestic gas subsidy for …

been strong, yet poverty remains high. Underlying the shortage of good livelihoods and high social inequality is the lack …

This study assesses temporal and spatial distribution of child deprivation and income poverty using the fifth and sixth … deprivation of children aged 7 to 17 years, and the outcomes were compared to the incidence of income poverty. The analyses reveal … areas; and differences in regional rankings of deprivation and income poverty. Distinct policies for child deprivation and …