inequality, institutions, and economic and infrastructure policies can influence welfare and political stability. Chapter 2 … development. Chapters 5 and 6 contribute to the debate on the effect of political and fiscal institutions on budgeting …

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 …

-distribution method. Poverty and inequality decline overall, since households with children and low income gain, while those who used to …

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. …

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 …

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 … presented in this paper pools all the relevant variables for development within a simple life-cycle model, which can also be …

shape of the distribution and derived measures of inequality, poverty, and mobility. Using employment histories of German …