The poverty reduction potential of national social assistance programs in eight Central and Eastern European countries … higher effectiveness in reducing poverty. Unlike Western Europe, no trade-off between extensiveness and benefit generosity or …

How can poverty reduction be improved and at what cost? Available evidence suggests that social investment strategies … and employment policies are important but not sufficient. In order to reduce the number of people below the relative at-risk-of-poverty … paper we show that this is not a cheap option. We calculate the hypothetical cost of closing the poverty gap while …

This paper presents findings on the changing effectiveness of cash transfers and income taxes on inequality and poverty … relationship between the concentration of cash transfers net of direct taxes and their effectiveness in terms of reducing poverty …

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

results are interpreted in terms of poverty and inequality statistics while closely looking into the assumptions of the … microsimulation models. In the first scenario a modest level of guaranteed minimum income is feasible, decreasing both poverty and … unrealistically high tax rates, especially for Italy. The impact on poverty and inequality of the HNIT scheme is markedly higher for …

poverty and inequality of Uganda's revenue collection instruments and social spending programs. Fiscal policy – including many … of spending in Uganda generally. The impact of fiscal policy on poverty is negligible, while the combination of very …

, child poverty remains high as compared to other EU countries, possibly pointing to a weaker role of the public sector in … support also reduces poverty intensity and incidence, although not to a large extent. …

This paper produces a comprehensive assessment of income redistribution to the working-age population, covering OECD … countries over the last two decades. Redistribution is quantified as the relative reduction in market income inequality achieved … overall redistribution, the respective role of various categories of transfers for transfer redistribution; as well as …

The last decade has seen a sharp increase in interest in the possible existence of a Paradox of Redistribution (PoR …) whereby narrow targeting of social transfers aimed at increasing their redistributive (poverty) impact has the perverse effect … of increasing poverty over the medium term due to decreasing public support for such spending. However, empirical support …