-satisfaction. This paper reviews the social progress that Costa Rica has achieved and identifies reducing inequality and poverty as the …

the Greek crisis on inequality and poverty in 2009-2014 using the micro-simulation model EUROMOD. Specifically, the paper …-2014, a period for which survey data are not yet publicly available. The results indicate that inequality, as measured by most … inequality and poverty due to the recession. As fiscal consolidation intensified in 2012, tax and benefit policies appear to have …

Income inequality and relative poverty in the United States are among the highest in the OECD and have substantially … of growth. The present paper analyses the causes of US income inequality and relative poverty in an OECD context … degree, high income inequality is attributable to the large dispersion of earned income, which should be addressed by …

Poverty and income inequality have worsened since the onset of the crisis. While the design of fiscal measures has …

paper is to deliver a fresh assessment of the evolution of inequality and poverty across OECD countries over the last … overall income inequality masks compensating changes between the lower and upper halves of the income distribution. Also, it … inequality and comparing their evolution over time provides new policy-relevant perspectives on the nature of the changing income …

The paper describes inequality trends in selected emerging economies (Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, China, India … of living). To the extent made possible by the nature of available data, measures of income inequality for these emerging … economies covered in the paper show levels of income inequality higher than in the five most unequal OECD countries, while the …