In Tunisia, the contribution of the microentreprises sector, in the fight against poverty, has appeared so that, every increasing in the number of the microentreprises involves a reduction of the poverty rate. In addition, it proved that the participation of these small unities in the fight...

This paper provides an assessment of how households’ income has fared compared with GDP. While the prime focus is on incomes around the median, attention is paid also to the bottom of the income distribution. Thus, one contribution of the paper is to deliver a fresh assessment of the evolution...

Notwithstanding impressive progress, poverty and inequality remain high in Chile in OECD comparison, and the tax-benefit system does little to improve on this. The government plans to introduce a new cash transfer for the poor, the Ingreso Ético Familiar. This is a welcome initiative. However,...

Income inequality in Colombia has declined since the early 2000s but remains very high by international standards. Income dispersion largely originates from the labour market, which is characterised by a still high unemployment rate, a pervasive informal sector and a wide wage dispersion...

The paper is a survey of literature and statistical sources on poverty and inequality in Russia in the 1990s and the 2000s. It serves as a background to OECD (2011), the OECD Labour Market and Social Policy Review of the Russian Federation that was released in 2011. We start with an overview of...

Poverty is an important policy issue in OECD countries and the recent crisis has made it even more pressing. This paper highlights poverty rate differences across countries and reviews the various policies to tackle it. The OECD-wide poverty rate has drifted up, reaching around 11% in the late...

Substantial fiscal consolidation was achieved under the aegis of the 2003 Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management Act. While deficits widened anew in 2008 and 2009, against the backdrop of the global financial and economic crisis, efforts to reduce them have resumed since. To ensure...

Les quartiers pauvres d’Antananarivo sont un agrégat concentré de tous les maux urbains : menace d’inondation pendant la saison des pluies, entassements humains, quasi-absence d’accès à l’eau courante, fréquence des problèmes de drogue et de violence, mauvaise réputation, etc. Ces...

L’envolée récente des prix des commodités depuis fin 2010ouvre à nouveau le débat de la mesure des conséquences de l’inflation alimentaire sur la pauvreté. Cet article offre un éclairage méthodologique grâce à une revue critique de la littérature et propose de nouvelles pistes de...

Dans cet article, nous utilisons et adaptons une approche par dominance stochastique proposée par Duclos, Makdissi et Wodon (2005) à l'analyse des dépenses publiques en éducation en Côte d'Ivoire. Nous montrons qu'une réallocation des dépenses publiques en éducation vers le niveau...