the distributional effect of taxes and transfers (through social protection) using Ethiopia as a case study. We find that … currently Ethiopia's flagship social protection programme is more effective than income taxation in achieving poverty reduction … Ethiopia would have the capacity to achieve the desired level of redistribution by applying higher marginal rates on relatively …

as Albania and Moldova, and two low-income countries such as Burkina Faso and Ethiopia. In all of them, children and …

We use Arndt and Simler's utility-consistent approach to calculating poverty lines to analyse poverty in Ethiopia in …