income tax is found to be largely progressive, with the top quintile paying more than four-fifths of this tax. Uruguay …'s fiscal policies also lead to a reduction in poverty, mainly due to well-targeted direct transfers …

We consider the link between poverty and subjective well-being, and focus in particular on potential adaptation to … poverty. We use panel data on almost 54,000 individuals living in Germany from 1985 to 2012 to show first that life … satisfaction falls with both the incidence and intensity of contemporaneous poverty. We then reveal that there is little evidence …

This book examines poverty as a structural problem caused by the way economic systems operate. It poses a simple … caught in a vicious circle. They lack sufficient access to education, credit and other means to generate income, so they earn … lower wages, which in turn prevents them from accumulating the assets they need to increase future income. The authors …

poverty. Drawing on data from Mexico's Adultos Mayores Program (Older Adults Program) --a cash transfer scheme aimed at rural …