these tax, transfer and minimum wage reforms on income inequality and poverty based on a microsimulation approach using … to substantially reduce the extent of income inequality and relative income poverty and the paper draws out how the two …

This paper assesses child poverty in 24 high- and middle-income countries, using data from the Luxembourg Income Study … (LIS) Database. We assess poverty patterns using both relative and absolute poverty standards, to account for variation in … income levels both within and across countries. We analyze poverty outcomes based on (i) market income (income "prior to …

Poverty remains one of the greatest problems of our time, causing starvation and humiliation in poor countries and … a systematical analysis of today's donor strategies for development cooperation, which unite around the goal of poverty … accentuations regarding beneficiaries and implementation methods are highlighted. An empirical study of the poverty focus in project …

when a number of indicators are used. One of the aspects analysed are outcomes, i.e. the prevalence of poverty and the … poverty reduction effectiveness. To analyse outcomes the LIS data are used. Six different countries are included into … comparison. The findings show that the countries vary to a large extent in their effectiveness of reducing poverty. Further, they …