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

In this paper, we use a static fiscal incidence analysis model to evaluate the poverty and inequality impacts of using … substantially reduce poverty and inequality to varying degrees depending on the taxes and transfers used. …

Using comparable fiscal incidence analysis, this paper examines the impact of fiscal policy on inequality and poverty … targeted at the rich. While fiscal policy always reduces inequality, this is not the case with poverty. Fiscal policy increases …

This paper applies a novel inequality estimation method to household consumption expenditure in Mumbai, India. Since … the richest households may be missing in survey data, this reestimated inequality figure takes them into account by … coefficient of 0.447 underestimates consumption inequality in Mumbai; none of the ten investigated scenarios yields a higher …

fiscal inequality across Indian states, the paper suggests a relatively more progressive transfer system and a developmental …

Inequality in South Africa is the enduring legacy of racial discrimination. We use a dynamic perspective to show the … reducing inequality. We present a machine-learning analysis based on household survey data in the Post-Apartheid Labour Market … behaviour of variables related to labour market status, and labour income inequality. The empirical investigation covers the …