developing countries and highlights the role of microsimulation techniques to characterize how different African countries can … learn from each other to improve social protection and reduce inequality. …

counterfactual simulations. We start by decomposing changes in inequal- ity/poverty indices into three contributions: reforms of the … (benefit amounts, tax bands, etc.), and all other changes in the underlying population (market income inequality, demographic …-benefit changes on inequality when evaluated against a distributionally-neutral benchmark, i.e. a situation where tax …

This paper examines the impact on inequality and poverty of the economic crisis in four European countries, namely … 2010, was one of great economic turmoil, yet it is unclear whether changes in inequality and poverty rates over this time … decreasing inequality and relative poverty in the UK, France and especially in Ireland, a country where rising unemployment would …

1998-2001 period have offset the increase in inequality that would have occurred otherwise. They also contribute to a … strong decline in child poverty and poverty amongst single parent households. In the latter group, a third of the headcount … poverty reduction (and half of the reduction in the depth of poverty) is on account of the very large incentive effect of …

1998-2001 period have offset the increase in inequality that would have occurred otherwise. They also contribute to a … strong decline in child poverty and poverty amongst single parent households. In the latter group, a third of the headcount … poverty reduction (and half of the reduction in the depth of poverty) is on account of the very large incentive effect of …

1998-2001 period have offset the increase in inequality that would have occurred otherwise. They also contribute to a … strong decline in child poverty and poverty amongst single parent households. In the latter group, a third of the headcount … poverty reduction (and half of the reduction in the depth of poverty) is on account of the very large incentive effect of …

This paper explains how to build Lorenz Curves for income distributions and discusses their use for inequality … and draw Lorenz Curves. A discussion on the use of Lorenz Curves to represent inequality is also provided. It highlights …

effective in alleviating poverty and inequality than changes to the structure of policies. In fact, most of the structural … changes that governments introduced, especially in the 2007-11 crisis-onset period, had poverty and inequality …This paper examines the extent to which tax and benefit policy changes introduced in the period 2001-11 had a poverty …

distribution and the incidence of relative income poverty is proposed. It involves the construction of a “distributionally neutral …