This paper investigates the association between gender and poverty in Tunisia based upon an empirical analysis of 1990 and 2000 household surveys. It also tests whether there is a widespread feminization of poverty. To achieve these goals, the paper suggests a theoretically sound method to...

While cash transfers through proxy means tests have increased over the last decade in Latin America to fight poverty, consumption subsidies remain the common form of redistributive income in most MENA countries. There may be many reasons for this such as their administrative costs, effects on...

The purpose of this paper is to study the effects of tax reforms on unemployment and wages. Since the characterization of labor market is always a problematic issue, the impact of various revenue-neutral tax reforms on unemployment, wages, prices, and consumption in Tunisia are calibrated using...

This paper starts by presenting a descriptive analysis of the effects of general food subsidies on poverty in Tunisia; as revealed by the household survey data for 1990. The analysis indicates that the poorest certainly take advantage of this system, but at the price of considerable leakages to...

The evaluation of the horizontal inefficiency of an anti-poverty design is often reduced to the determination of the type I errors, which occur where eligible individuals are not awarded benefits. Because under-coverage ratio does not consider the social cost resulting from unequal treatment of...

We propose a general approach that jointly integrates horizontal and vertical equity criteria in the assessment of poverty alleviation programs, with the strength of each criterion captured through its own inequity-aversion parameter. This contrasts with the assessment of poverty alleviation...

The purpose of this paper is to apply a general and unified approach to inequality measurement in Arab countries. To this end, a wide class of inequality indices, proposed by Olmedo et al. (2009) and based on the Bonferroni (1930) curve, rather than the Lorenz curve, is used. When local measures...

The objective of this paper is twofold. Firstly, we show how reliable datasets can be generated to perform distributional analysis in the Arab region, based on a useful procedure of desegregating grouped data published by official statistical agencies. Secondly, using accessible raw micro data...

The main objective of this paper is to perform a decomposition analysis of the level of inequality between socioeconomic groups and geopolitical regions of each country to better our understanding of the contribution of each socioeconomic group to overall inequality. This paper will fill in an...