redistribute income. The redistributive power of 56 transfers in eight countries is measured by their simulated impacts on poverty … unit subsidies limit the redistributive, poverty and inequality impacts of even the most targeted social assistance …

. The paper underscores the principles of the poverty focus of social assistance and presents an overview of existence … evidence of first- and second-order effects of social assistance, particularly in the domains of poverty, education, health and … labour markets. Moreover, the paper highlights the knowledge gaps with regard to the longer-term and gender-specific welfare …

The poverty reduction potential of national social assistance programs in eight Central and Eastern European countries … higher effectiveness in reducing poverty. Unlike Western Europe, no trade-off between extensiveness and benefit generosity or …

This paper presents findings on the changing effectiveness of cash transfers and income taxes on inequality and poverty … relationship between the concentration of cash transfers net of direct taxes and their effectiveness in terms of reducing poverty …

This papers quantifies the redistributive effects on progressivity, poverty and welfare, that would occur if the … poverty reducing as the one in force (or more in some dimensions), and a generator of greater welfare. …

of consumption are embedded in welfare evaluations of respondents. More precisely, we find that the formalized … relationship between welfare-retaining aggregate family incomes across different family types, suggested by Donaldson and Pendakur …

is in paid work. Working households comprised 37% of those below the official poverty line in 1994-95 and 58% in 2017 …-18. Much of that increase is due to trends that seem straightforwardly positive: lower poverty rates among pensioners and … rate of poverty in house holds where someone works. We examine the reason for the increased in-work relative poverty rate …

This paper discusses data used in publishing statistics on earnings, the distribution of household income and poverty …. This has had consequences for providing official data on wages, income and poverty which we discuss along with other … earnings, household income and poverty, and we present seven of these in the paper. …