poverty and inequality goals. The paper uses different assumptions about growth incidence curves to model changes in … the forecasts, suggesting an important role for inequality on the path to eliminating extreme poverty …The goals of ending extreme poverty by 2030 and working toward a more equal distribution of income are prominent in …

inequality, with government expenditures in the form of in-kind transfers leading to the largest decreases. While expenditures in …'s fiscal policies also lead to a reduction in poverty, mainly due to well-targeted direct transfers …

This study assesses the redistributive effects of fiscal policy in Mali and Niger. Fiscal policy is poverty increasing … three deciles, respectively). Although existing direct fiscal transfers have poverty-reducing effects, they are too small …

In 2013, Mexico's Social Pension Program for the Elderly was expanded by changing its eligibility threshold from age 70 … exogenous variation around eligibility age was exploited to uncover the causal effects of this expansion on extreme poverty and …-experimental methods, results show that the expansion of Mexico's Social Pension Program for the Elderly not only reduced the probability …

sheds light on the relationship between poverty and agriculture as part of the process of structural transformation. It … regional level where the Common Agricultural Program funding tends to go, poverty-wise, within each country. This approach …

transfers. The findings show that the system is progressive and contributes to reductions in poverty and inequality. The Gini ….76 Gini points (around 16 percent). Something similar happens with the poverty rate, which decreases from 47.31 to 31 …

suggests it is context and method specific. Although changes in poverty and inequality are always statistically significant …

combined effect of taxes and social spending helped substantially to reduce poverty and inequality in Poland in 2014, in line … poverty, inequality, and the potential fiscal cost are presented. The simulations show that there are potential efficiency …This paper assesses the impact of fiscal policy on the incidence, depth, and severity of poverty, and examines whether …

Egypt also led to a decrease in poverty, mostly from the flagship Tamween program. Poverty and inequality could be reduced … data for fiscal year 2015. Evidence shows that Egyptian fiscal policy reduces income inequality, and that among individual … countries, Egypt's overall fiscal policy placed it in the median of the distribution of inequality reduction. Fiscal policies in …