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 …

than at the bottom. Despite this, inequality in market incomes as measured by the Gini coefficient increased over the …

. The findings show that the pandemic is likely to have significant long-run consequences in terms of incomes and poverty if …

-benefit policies stabilized earnings losses. We then evaluate the impact on income-based poverty and inequality and the contribution of … inequality, and somewhat larger effects on the poverty gap due to lower relative earnings losses of the poor population at the … discretionary tax-benefit policies in alleviating the shock. Our analysis shows modest increases in headcount poverty rates and …

dramatic increase in income poverty and inequality between December 2019 and June 2020. The poverty rate, measured with the … national poverty line, goes up from 25.7 to 58.2 per cent over this period and extreme poverty increases from 9.2 to 38.6 per … cent. Inequality measured by the Gini coefficient increases substantially from 0.461 to 0.592. On average, household …

interventions are therefore seen as instrumental in cushioning against the impact of the crisis on inequality and poverty. Finally …. Poverty, as measured by the at risk of poverty (AROP) rate, would increase significantly, even in presence of policy measures … (+1.7pp), although this result depend on whether we anchor the poverty line to its pre-crisis level. When doing so, the …

, that direct taxes and cash transfers are overall progressive and reduce inequality and poverty. Our disaggregated analyses … of fiscal policy on income redistribution, and poverty in South Africa. We find, in accordance with previous research …

incidence of poverty by 1.3 and 1.6 percentage points in 2020 and 2021,respectively. The effects were bigger among households … with children: if no modifications had been undertaken in social protection as a response to COVID-19, poverty would have …