overview of the development of social inequality in Central and Eastern Europe; and (b) to quantify the change of poverty rates … for leaving poverty, social transfers significantly improve the economic conditions of families in need. Without the …

dependency, identifiable by region and demographic. Using a flow analysis (inflow and outflow) of poverty, rather than a stock … analysis, we explain why poverty is more appropriately understood as a dynamic, with the majority of people flowing in and out … of poverty for short durations. Distinguishing between structural and transitory poverty gives rise to a focus on the …

of fiscal policy interventions on inequality and poverty. Specifically, we analyze the distributional incidence of direct … to poverty reduction and are almost neutral in their distributive impact. The results contribute to the understanding of …

Social transfer programmes in developing countries are designed to contribute to poverty reduction by increasing the … poverty and neediness or whether other factors also have an influence. To investigate these and other research questions, we …