This paper analyses the relationship between growth patterns, poverty, and inequality in Brazil during its …

reducing poverty through social assistance payments are calculated using several measures of poverty for five selected EU … poverty alleviation, the results provide some evidence that extremely centralised systems are more effective with regard to …

insurance in the 1990s and the growth of social assistance in the 2000s, and assesses their effects on poverty and inequality …

developed. Subsequently, on the basis of LIS data the effectiveness and efficiency in reducing poverty through social assistance …

of recipients. I then discuss empirical work on the effects of the EITC on poverty and income distribution, and its …

urban poverty. …

Using counterfactual microsimulations, Shapley decompositions of time change in inequality and poverty indices make it … depth of poverty would have increased under the first New Labour government, had important reforms like the extensions of … income support and tax credits not been implemented. These reforms have also contributed to substantially reduce poverty …

poverty module (GlobPov), we assess the implication of the IPCC SRES scenarios on global poverty and inequality. We find that … global poverty and inequality measures are sensitive to the downscaling methodology used. Our results show that future … economic growth is crucial for poverty reduction. Higher per capita incomes tend to favour poverty reduction, while higher …

countries with respect to poverty reduction, the distribution of income within countries, the distribution of income between …