2000s. Since the recession, there was a rise in inequality and poverty levels and aggregate welfare decreased. While … transfers and unemployment compensation failed to address rising inequality and poverty in any significant way. At the same time …-off. Finally, we show that in the past few years poverty rates were much more sensitive to changes in inequality than in average …

2000s. Since the recession, there was a rise in inequality and poverty levels and aggregate welfare decreased. While … transfers and unemployment compensation failed to address rising inequality and poverty in any significant way. At the same time …-off. Finally, we show that in the past few years poverty rates were much more sensitive to changes in inequality than in average …

trade-offs of benefit designs, estimating costs and impacts on poverty and inequality and assessing operational and … the models that are strongly progressive (the targeted and the hybrid models) are more efficient to reduce poverty and … inequality than universal transfers. The hybrid model presents results close to those estimated for the targeted model and has …

poverty and inequality. To that end, we have used data from the 2001-2015 standard National Household Sample Survey (Pesquisa … income as reflected by PNAD (0.7 per cent), the programme has such a significant impact on poverty reduction: its transfers … reduce poverty by 15 per cent and extreme poverty by 25 per cent. Dynamic decompositions of the Gini coefficient suggest that …

trade-offs of benefit designs, estimating costs and impacts on poverty and inequality and assessing operational and … the models that are strongly progressive (the targeted and the hybrid models) are more efficient to reduce poverty and … inequality than universal transfers. The hybrid model presents results close to those estimated for the targeted model and has …

poverty and inequality. To that end, we have used data from the 2001-2015 standard National Household Sample Survey (Pesquisa … income as reflected by PNAD (0.7 per cent), the programme has such a significant impact on poverty reduction: its transfers … reduce poverty by 15 per cent and extreme poverty by 25 per cent. Dynamic decompositions of the Gini coefficient suggest that …

Over the past two decades, poverty and income inequality declined sharply in Espírito Santo. About half of the observed … reduction in poverty was due to the concomitant and also sharp drop in inequality that characterized the period under review …. This sharp reduction in poverty and inequality, however, did not operate continuously over the past two decades, and was …

Milanovic, Lindert and Williamson (2007) introduced the concept of the inequality possibility frontier. Their starting … very little surplus to be appropriated by the upper classes of these societies. The inequality possibility frontier is the … maximum level of inequality possible at each level of income. This paper extends the concept to cover regional cases …