Poverty and wellbeing are multi-dimensional. Nobody questions that deprivations and achievements go beyond income …. There is, however, sharp disagreement on whether the various dimensions of poverty and wellbeing can be aggregated into a … single, multi-dimensional index in a meaningful way. Is aggregating dimensions of poverty and wellbeing useful? Is it …

Poverty and well-being are multidimensional. Nobody questions that deprivations and achievements go beyond income …. There is, however, sharp disagreement on whether the various dimensions of poverty and well-being can be aggregated into a … single, multidimensional index in a meaningful way. Is aggregating dimensions of poverty and well-being useful? Is it …

Poverty and wellbeing are multi-dimensional. Nobody questions that deprivations and achievements go beyond income …. There is, however, sharp disagreement on whether the various dimensions of poverty and wellbeing can be aggregated into a … single, multi-dimensional index in a meaningful way. Is aggregating dimensions of poverty and wellbeing useful? Is it …

Poverty and well-being are multidimensional. Nobody questions that deprivations and achievements go beyond income …. There is, however, sharp disagreement on whether the various dimensions of poverty and well-being can be aggregated into a … single, multidimensional index in a meaningful way. Is aggregating dimensions of poverty and well-being useful? Is it …

The effect of taxes and benefits on the poor is usually measured using standard poverty and inequality indicators …

collection and social spending? Using a standard fiscal incidence analysis, we quantify the reduction in inequality and poverty …

Taxes and transfers can have significant impacts on poverty and inequality. All standard measures are by definition … transfers can lower inequality and poverty (including the severity of poverty) but still make a subgroup of the poor worse off … when standard poverty and inequality indicators decline and overall taxes are progressive. …

Fiscal policy can change poverty and inequality substantially or slightly depending on the government’s redistributive … independent evaluations. CEQ relies on inequality, poverty and tax and benefit incidence analyses. …

Inequality and poverty fell sharply in many Latin American countries during a decade in which voters in ten countries … econometric evidence that social democratic regimes in Brazil and Chile were more successful at reducing inequality and poverty … are a return to “normal” levels (as estimated by fixed effects). Conversely, inequality and poverty in Brazil and Chile …