developed. Subsequently, on the basis of LIS data the effectiveness and efficiency in reducing poverty through social assistance …

reducing poverty through social assistance payments are calculated using several measures of poverty for five selected EU … poverty alleviation, the results provide some evidence that extremely centralised systems are more effective with regard to …

redistribute income. The redistributive power of 56 transfers in eight countries is measured by their simulated impacts on poverty … unit subsidies limit the redistributive, poverty and inequality impacts of even the most targeted social assistance …

countries studied differ in the trends observed in aggregate income, poverty, polarization and income inequality. In the USA and … intermediate case. Poverty trends are extremely sensitive to the distribution of the gains from growth - if only 10% of the income … gains of the top decile of the UK and the USA had been transferred to the bottom decile, poverty in both countries in 1994 …

Comparative research of poverty, income inequality and the effectiveness of income transfer systems has flourished … poverty and income inequality with a special emphasis on their stability. We studied trends of poverty and income inequality … between 1980 and 1995 in nine countries representing three different ideal types of social policy. The differences in poverty …

Recent development literature has placed priority on poverty reduction, and on possible growth enhancement from a more … than distribution neutral. In that context, this paper explores the relationship among growth, inequality and poverty, and … neutral path (‘trickle down’) for reducing poverty; 2) a redistributive growth path is always superior if a country’s per …