households would help fiscal policy achieve poverty reduction and even greater inequality reduction. If subsidies on fuel …'s 2015 fiscal policy reduces inequality; the largest reduction is created by in-kind public service expenditures on education …. However, fiscal policy also increases poverty in three ways: (1) there is a relatively low level of targeted, direct …

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 …

transfers, indirect subsidies, and in-kind transfers) on the level of poverty and inequality in Uganda, using the …-kind transfers, are the biggest contributors to reducing inequality. Although equalizing, fiscal policy is poverty-inducing in Uganda … resources to increase the size and coverage of pro-poor direct transfers programs may alleviate poverty and reduce inequality …