Colombia has reduced extreme poverty in the past 16 years by almost half, moderate poverty by 22 percentage points, and … results suggest that the combined effect of taxes and social spending in Colombia contributes to poverty reduction between 0 … made more than four million Colombians jump the threshold of multidimensional poverty. However, it remains one of the most …

income level that triggers mandatory tax filing. The proposed methodology is applied to the case of Colombia …

, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru). They find that in these countries standard CPI inflation typically reflects the inflation rate …

Colombia has the seventh highest Gini coefficient of income inequality in the world. The Santos Administration is aware … Colombia, meanwhile, direct taxes, indirect taxes, and monetary transfers hardly dent the high Gini coefficient. To reduce … presents an illustrative reform package that would be sufficient for Colombia to reach levels of inequality similar to Chile or …

policy in Chile in 2013. Four results are indicative of an overall positive net effect of fiscal interventions on poverty and … inequality. First, subsidies exert a positive, yet modest effect on poverty and inequality, whereas direct transfers are … progressive, equalizing, and reduce the poverty headcount by 4 to 5 percentage points, depending on the poverty line used. Second …

This paper assesses the impact of fiscal policy on the incidence, depth, and severity of poverty, and examines whether … combined effect of taxes and social spending helped substantially to reduce poverty and inequality in Poland in 2014, in line … capacity to redistribute, it had a relatively weak capacity to reduce poverty given the resources at its disposal, and this was …

-often referred to as poverty maps-to estimate a model of rural per capita expenditure growth for Uganda between 1992 and 1999. They …

The Millennium Development Goal of halving the incidence of extreme poverty from its 1990 level will be achieved in … 2015, and the international development community is now moving to a new goal of ?ending extreme poverty.? However, the … countries have zero or only one poverty estimate. This paper refers to such lack of poverty data as ?data deprivation,? because …

cost approach. The pros and cons of each method are discussed in the context of poverty and inequality analysis and it is …