Absolute poverty has dropped markedly in Bulgaria but income inequality has increased substantially in the aftermath of …

Romania, Bulgaria, and the economies of the Visegrad Group as peripheral countries is frequently attributed to the legacy of … is to investigate the potential occurrence of a core-periphery pattern and the relative situation of Romania, Bulgaria …Recent studies suggest a core-periphery pattern of energy poverty in the European Union. The energy vulnerability of …

We use a fiscal incidence model based on the South African 2014/15 Living Conditions Survey to simulate the poverty … COVID-19 Social Relief of Distress grant upon its expiry and closing the extreme (food poverty line) poverty gap. Our key … findings are that the introduction of a household-targeted family poverty grant is theoretically able to reduce extreme poverty …

Fiscal policy is central to not only macroeconomic stability and growth, but also to poverty and inequality reduction … insufficient to compensate for the effect of taxes, resulting in net increases in poverty. In the context of upper …