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 …

from 3,676 households that appear in at least two waves to explore the effect of income diversification on household … welfare measured in terms of food consumption. The analysis considers four sources of labour income in addition to farming …

Rising levels of income inequality and tight government budgets have spurred discussions in many developing nations … about how to appropriately tax high-income earners. In this paper, we study taxpayer responses to an increase in the top … identification design. We establish that treated taxpayers strongly reduce their reported taxable income in response to the tax …

The quality of data on employment income is explored using Tanzanian and Zambian household survey datasets. The extent … of missing and implausible income data is assessed and four different methods are applied to impute missing or …

countries, this paperidentifiessignificant positive effects on provinces' average household income in Viet Nam. The effect sizes … are larger for lower-income quintiles and for rural areas, suggesting the more inclusive changing impact of the innovation … presented. The evidence from Viet Nam, a lowermiddle-income country, can bring further understanding in terms of the extent of …

Personal income tax is attracting more attention from the Vietnamese government, which has been looking for a way to … income sources, and then uses a static microsimulation SOUTHMOD model to estimate the impact of income under-reporting on the … scale of tax evasion and income inequality of Viet Nam. The paper finds that the officially reported income only accounts …

How does income inequality impact the propensity for and levels of formal and informal household debt? This paper …

We synthesize the findings from several recent papers on South Africa's very high income inequality. These papers use … new datasets—including income tax data—and new empirical methods to investigate the drivers of household income and … the earnings and income distributions have done well in both absolute and relative terms, thus increasing inequality …

In this paper we explore the income data in two surveys that underpin a South African tax-benefit microsimulation model … time point. We explore discrepancies between the simulated and administrative data on personal income tax, with reference … implausible cases for high income individuals. The paper concludes by highlighting the potential for administrative data to …