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Reducing poverty remains an important challenge, and the COVID-19-crisis may further reinforce social vulnerabilities …. Although it has declined lately, relative poverty remains high in international comparison and is distributed unevenly across … particularly affected. A comprehensive approach is required to ensure an effective transition out of poverty and social exclusion …
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Income inequality in Colombia has declined since the early 2000s but remains very high by international standards. Income dispersion largely originates from the labour market, which is characterised by a still high unemployment rate, a pervasive informal sector and a wide wage dispersion...
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Notwithstanding impressive progress, poverty and inequality remain high in Chile in OECD comparison, and the tax … be quite narrowly targeted at families living in extreme poverty. Over time, the government should consider increasing … support for the poor to find jobs of decent quality will be key to help them overcome poverty in a sustainable way. Ingreso …
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paper is to deliver a fresh assessment of the evolution of inequality and poverty across OECD countries over the last … explores whether contracting inequalities coexist with increasing poverty. The paper adds to previous studies by introducing …
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The paper is a survey of literature and statistical sources on poverty and inequality in Russia in the 1990s and the … that was released in 2011. We start with an overview of poverty and income inequality estimates available. Poverty and … inequality trends are then complemented with poverty incidence analysis based on a nationally representative household survey …
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to the OECD average but contributed to large increases in income inequality and poverty that have only been partially …
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contribution to inequality and poverty in Sweden, but occupy only limited space in the income inequality debate. To fill this gap …
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