among low and even middle income countries. It helps mitigate income poverty and inequality, and has been shown to have a …. This paper uses the National Income Dynamics Survey (NIDS) to derive the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) and … Correlation Sensitive Poverty Index (CSPI) for South Africa, and then estimate the impact that social assistance grants have on …

Egypt also led to a decrease in poverty, mostly from the flagship Tamween program. Poverty and inequality could be reduced …. The large gap between the government's expenditures and revenues helps explain the positive outcomes on poverty and …

transfers. The findings show that the system is progressive and contributes to reductions in poverty and inequality. The Gini ….76 Gini points (around 16 percent). Something similar happens with the poverty rate, which decreases from 47.31 to 31 …

effect of the DC supplemental earned income tax credit (EITC) and the federal EITC on poverty and income dynamics within … to estimate the likelihood of net-EITC income above poverty and near-poverty thresholds. We also estimate the likelihood … EITC raises the likelihood of net-EITC income above poverty and near poverty by as much as 9 percent, with the largest …