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This paper illustrates how Crossing Generalised Lorenz (GL) curves can be used to identify the best income distribution on social welfare grounds within a set of alternative income distributions generated by different policy options. It starts by illustrating two alternative income distributions...
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This paper analyses the relationship between growth patterns, poverty, and inequality in Brazil during its … and in income inequality. The other contribution is a decomposition methodology that explores linkages between three …
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2000s. Since the recession, there was a rise in inequality and poverty levels and aggregate welfare decreased. While … transfers and unemployment compensation failed to address rising inequality and poverty in any significant way. At the same time …, Social Security contributed to surprisingly large increases in inequality due to the rise in pensions to the well …
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2000s. Since the recession, there was a rise in inequality and poverty levels and aggregate welfare decreased. While … transfers and unemployment compensation failed to address rising inequality and poverty in any significant way. At the same time …, Social Security contributed to surprisingly large increases in inequality due to the rise in pensions to the well …
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This handbook presents a step-by-step guide to applying the incidence analysis used in the multi-country project CEQ. We define the pre- and post-net transfers income concepts, discuss the methodological assumptions used to construct them, explain how taxes, subsidies and transfers should be...
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collection and social spending? Using a standard fiscal incidence analysis, we quantify the reduction in inequality and poverty … other Latin American countries. Paraguay achieves a relatively small reduction in inequality, even when in-kind education …
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Taxes and transfers can have significant impacts on poverty and inequality. All standard measures are by definition … transfers can lower inequality and poverty (including the severity of poverty) but still make a subgroup of the poor worse off … when standard poverty and inequality indicators decline and overall taxes are progressive. …
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Fiscal policy can change poverty and inequality substantially or slightly depending on the government’s redistributive … and human capital accumulation, as well as with reducing inequality. The Commitment to Equity Assessment (CEQ) evaluates … independent evaluations. CEQ relies on inequality, poverty and tax and benefit incidence analyses. …
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Inequality and poverty fell sharply in many Latin American countries during a decade in which voters in ten countries … econometric evidence that social democratic regimes in Brazil and Chile were more successful at reducing inequality and poverty … Venezuela started the 1990-2008 sample window with lower levels of inequality, so to some extent recent reductions in inequality …
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This article examines inequality and poverty among older people in Japan. It compares Japan with that of a sample of … from labor explain some of the inequality and poverty that is seen in Japan. So, too, do the low rate of take up of social …
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