The poverty impact of indirect tax reforms is analyzed using sequential stochastic dominance methods. This allows …

of improving social welfare or decreasing poverty for large classes of social welfare and poverty indices. It also … derives estimators of critical poverty lines and economic efficiency ratios which can be used to characterize socially …

income. Considering both the distributive and efficiency criteria we search for a poverty reducing direction of VAT reform in … Bengal suggest that VAT reform is not largely poverty reducing. Further scopes of improvement in its design are observed. …

This paper is intended to shed light on the extent of poverty in the Russian Federation. We present estimates of … poverty lines and poverty ratios derived from subjective questions used in a during data collection for a large household … panel (RUSSET). We estimate poverty using a subjective approach, where the level of the poverty line is derived using the …

experience a higher degree of income poverty and costs in terms of people’s reduced likelihood of being able to access medical or …

This paper investigates the optimal general income tax and audit policies when poverty is a public bad and income is … when reducing poverty is one of the goals of the social planner and their consumption can affect negatively the poverty …

revenue, which is spent for public goods (including education) and transfers (for poverty reduction). The efficient design of … poverty in an appropriate time period by transfers and vocational education measures for the grown-up as well as high quality …

We evaluate the impact of the rise in food prices during 2006-2008 on the poverty and extreme poverty rates in Mexico … prices of food products. We find a modest increase in poverty using 2006-2007 prices, however, there is a daunting effect on … in 2008, such as reduced taxes and tariffs on food products and greater subsidies to the extremely poor, the poverty rate …

continuing controversy in India over poverty lines, we use a framework that rigorously assesses the impact of growth on the poor … over a range of poverty lines. Using National sample Surveys on consumption expenditure, we show that while growth has …