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Fiscal Incidence, Fiscal Mobility and the Poor: A New Approach
Lustig, Nora; Higgins, Sean - Department of Economics, Tulane University - 2012
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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010904625
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Fiscal Incidence, Fiscal Mobility and the Poor: a New Approach
Lustig, Nora; Higgins, Sean - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2012
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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011098387
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Poverty-dominant program reforms: the role of targeting and allocation rules
Makdissi, Paul; Wodon, Quentin; Duclos, Jean-Yves - Département d'économique, Faculté d'administration - 2002
We propose simple graphical methods to identify poverty-reducing marginal reforms of transfer programs. The methods are … based on Program Dominance curves that display cumulative program benefits weighted by powers of poverty gaps. These curves … whether the assessment of marginal program reforms is sensitive to the choice of poverty lines and poverty measures as well as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005770804
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Minimum-Income Benefits in OECD Countries: Policy Design, Effectiveness and Challenges
Immervoll, Herwig - Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs … - 2010
Almost all OECD countries operate comprehensive minimum-income programmes for working-age individuals, either as last-resort safety nets alongside primary income replacement benefits, or as the principal instrument for delivering social protection. Such safety-net benefits aim primarily at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008497891
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A Pause in the Growth of Inequality in China?
Herd, Richard - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2010
in rural areas, but it has not reduced poverty that much, not least because of how it is administered. Moreover, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008480479
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Targeting versus Universalism: An Evaluation of Indirect Effects of the Employment Guarantee Scheme in India
Imai, Katsushi - Department of Economics, Royal Holloway University of London - 2004
Although a workfare scheme is potentially a cost-effective poverty alleviation scheme as it attracts only the poor who …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005051666
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What is "Pro-Poor"?
Duclos, Jean-Yves; Wodon, Quentin - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2004
Assessing whether distributional changes are "pro-poor" has become increasingly widespread in academic and policy circles. Starting from relatively general ethical axioms, this paper proposes simple graphical methods to test whether distributional changes are indeed pro-poor. Pro-poor standards...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005696332
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"What Do Poor Women Want? Public Employment or Cash Transfers? Lessons from Argentina"
Tcherneva, Pavlina R. - Levy Economics Institute - 2012
profound social transformative effects. In particular, they can help address enduring economic problems such as poverty and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010627289
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Charting Income Inequality: The Lorenz Curve
Bellù, Lorenzo G.; Liberati, Paolo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
This paper explains how to build Lorenz Curves for income distributions and discusses their use for inequality measurement. A short conceptual background, a step-by-step procedure and a simple numerical example illustrate how to calculate and draw Lorenz Curves. A discussion on the use of Lorenz...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008919738
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Social Welfare Analysis of Income Distributions: Ranking Income Distributions with Crossing Generalised Lorenz Curves
Bellù, Lorenzo Giovanni; Liberati, Paolo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
This paper illustrates how Crossing Generalised Lorenz (GL) curves can be used to identify the best income distribution on social welfare grounds within a set of alternative income distributions generated by different policy options. It starts by illustrating two alternative income distributions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008924809