. 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 …

suggest that welfare gains attributed to the insurance and redistribution function of the social assistance program dominate …

This paper analyses the effectiveness of tax-benefit systems in reducing poverty and inequality across 13 countries in … to poverty and inequality. Additionally, we assess gender disparities in outcomes, quantify the distributional effects of …

-quarters of global poverty, at least at the lower poverty lines, could now be eliminated — in principle — via redistribution of … consideration of some national redistribution for purely instrumental reasons: to reduce or end global poverty quicker than waiting … but because some people lacked entitlements to that food. Is a similar situation now the case for global poverty, meaning …

such programmes on incomes and poverty during crises, especially in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) where they are …

, evidence on how these institutions shape poverty rates across developed economies remains surprisingly scarce. It would be a … mistake, though, to believe that the relationship between earnings inequalities and poverty is straightforward. Indeed …, whereas earnings inequalities are measured at the individual level, poverty is calculated at the household level using …

, evidence on how these institutions shape poverty rates across developed economies remains surprisingly scarce. It would be a … mistake, though, to believe that the relationship between earnings inequalities and poverty is straightforward. Indeed …, whereas earnings inequalities are measured at the individual level, poverty is calculated at the household level using …