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in poverty and income inequality, up to 2010 or 2011 in most countries. We provide measures of the levels and trends in … income inequality, and inequality among those with top incomes. …
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This study explores the evolution of inequality in Latin America during the COVID-19 pandemic using primary data … available from household and employment surveys collected in 2020. Inequality increased on average by 2 percent between 2019 and … 2020, twice the average annual growth in the inequality indicator that marked the decade of growing inequality in the 1990s …
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In general, there seems to be a basic consensus on how to measure poverty and inequality. For this reason there is a … general agreement with respect to their levels and evolution over time, with respect to Chile and also to the city of Santiago …. Additionally, in the case of Chile there are no reliable data to consider its evolution over time. Nevertheless, the general …
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Absolute poverty has dropped markedly in Bulgaria but income inequality has increased substantially in the aftermath of … the GFC. This increase is due to a rise in market income inequality that was compounded by a reduction in fiscal … redistributive efficiency. The COVID-19 crisis is likely to deepen income inequality, increasing the room for redistributive policies …
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In recent years, policymaking in China has put increasing emphasis on stemming the growth in inequality, which had been … of other social benefits. A set of new indicators of nationwide inequality, based on household survey data, suggests that … overall inequality has ceased to increase in recent years, and may even have inched down. Alternative measures of income …
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household primary income inequality and disposable income inequality, redistribution from transfers and income taxes, and the …. LIS data allow us to decompose the trajectory of the Gini coefficient from primary to disposable income inequality in … LIS Budget Incidence Fiscal Redistribution Dataset on Income Inequality (LLBIFR Dataset on Income Inequality 2017) allows …
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learn from each other to improve social protection and reduce inequality. …
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learn from each other to improve social protection and reduce inequality. …
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This paper analyses the distributive impacts of various regulatory and institutional settings of European schemes of social assistance. For this purpose, two sets of classifications of European schemes of social assistance are introduced that classify the systems according to regulatory...
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This paper examines the impact on inequality and poverty of the economic crisis in four European countries, namely … 2010, was one of great economic turmoil, yet it is unclear whether changes in inequality and poverty rates over this time … decreasing inequality and relative poverty in the UK, France and especially in Ireland, a country where rising unemployment would …
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