This report examines the key trends in pensioner incomes and poverty over the past two decades. …

employment contracts and little public social support, the population in DCs is hard hit by income losses so that poverty in DCs …Developing countries (DCs) encounter the COVID-19 pandemic under distinctly different preconditions than high income … this context and will the trade patterns of DCs change in consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic? Third, how has poverty and …

This Research Topic focuses on the first Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) by the UN, which aims to “end poverty in … SDG progress report highlighted how poverty reduction has significantly slowed and worsened, mainly due to the COVID-19 … women. With the goal of eradicating poverty by 2030 currently off track, intensified action is crucial. Moreover, amid a …

In this paper, we use a static fiscal incidence analysis model to evaluate the poverty and inequality impacts of using … introducing a universal or working-age basic income grant. The implications of financing these reforms are examined using four tax … instruments: increasing the value-added tax rate, increasing personal income tax rates, reducing the personal income tax primary …

The Czech Republic has experienced a remarkable decline in the unemployment rate but not in relative poverty. I address … this and other facts by analysing the evolution of absolute and relative poverty over the 2004-2021 period. I first … document a remarkable decline in absolute poverty in poorer Czech regions, indicating that the growth experience of the Czech …