In this paper, we simulate the poverty effect of the Covid-19 pandemic in North Macedonia and we analyze the income … have been pushed into poverty by COVID-19, where 340,000 were already poor before the pandemic. Of the 120,000 newly poor …, about 16,000 would have been pushed into destitute poverty. The government’s automatic stabilizers worked to shield the …

Confronting theoretical and empirical literature on the relationship between growth, inequality and poverty, this paper …-poorness (the bias in favor of the poor), all the sources of poverty reduction and the policies implications. The weak versus strong … class or a progressive growth, calling for redistribution policies and limiting the scope of growth. The poverty …

The United Nations Millennium Declaration commits to halving extreme poverty between 2000 and 2015. The South African … government has set a goal of halving poverty by 2014, although the meaning of this goal has not yet been defined. This article … specifies government's stated target of halving poverty by 2014 in terms of specific measures of the poverty gap and poverty …

A considerable part of the poverty that is measured in a single period is transitory rather than persistent. In most … into and out of poverty should be the main focus of anti-poverty policies. Understanding the characteristics of the … persistently poor, and the circumstances and mechanisms associated with entry into and exit from poverty, can help to inform …

Germany. Although the reductionof income inequality and poverty were emphasized as policy goals of the of minimumwage … introduction, the distributional literature for Germany has focusedon hourly wages and earnings or relied on ex-ante simulations …. Based on data from the German Socio-EconomicPanel we analyze changes in wage and income inequality, poverty, and …

The "Minimum Vital Income" (IMV) constitutes a novelty in the panorama for fighting poverty by guaranteeing minimum … incomes after the COVID-19 crisis. This work simulates the distributional and poverty effects of the IMV introduction across … Spanish regions using EUROMOD. Our results show that the IMV reduces inequality and poverty - general and extreme - for all …

This paper analyses the impacts of indirect tax policy reforms on income distribution and poverty in Tanzania by … government tax revenue and a neutral effect on income distribution and poverty. The results of the second reform find a positive … distribution, poverty indicators fell. …

of changes in employment due to the COVID-19 crisis on inequality and poverty using the recently developed tax … recently released Integrated Household Survey which was collected just before the COVID-19 crisis. We find that the poverty … measured by headcount and poverty gap increases because of the COVID-19 outbreak. The pandemic has also worsened inequality as …

- better cushions the poverty effects of income shocks in a developing economy. We compare the effectiveness of the three … benefit schemes on poverty first conceptually and then by considering two different crisis scenarios, the COVID-19 pandemic … the proxy-means-tested benefits are the most effective in reducing the poverty gap index, a simple categorical benefit is …

the differences across the income distribution and impacts on measures of poverty and inequality. The paper also evaluates … experienced by higher-income households. Additionally, the estimates point to moderate increases in both the headcount poverty … rate and the extent of poverty, as measured by the poverty gap. Automatic stabilizers had a limited effect in cushioning …