This paper analyses the effectiveness of tax-benefit systems in reducing poverty and inequality across 13 countries in … to poverty and inequality. Additionally, we assess gender disparities in outcomes, quantify the distributional effects of … improve welfare outcomes. …

This paper studies the impact of the Protestant Reformation on wealth distribution and inequality in confessionally … divided Germany, between 1400 and 1800. The Reformation expanded social welfare, but provided it in a particularistic way to … insiders only. This gave Protestantism an ambiguous character in terms of redistribution and its impact on inequality. I …

trade-offs of benefit designs, estimating costs and impacts on poverty and inequality and assessing operational and …This study aims to present microsimulations of the future of non-contributory social transfers in Brazil, discussing … the models that are strongly progressive (the targeted and the hybrid models) are more efficient to reduce poverty and …

poverty and inequality. To that end, we have used data from the 2001-2015 standard National Household Sample Survey (Pesquisa … income as reflected by PNAD (0.7 per cent), the programme has such a significant impact on poverty reduction: its transfers … reduce poverty by 15 per cent and extreme poverty by 25 per cent. Dynamic decompositions of the Gini coefficient suggest that …

trade-offs of benefit designs, estimating costs and impacts on poverty and inequality and assessing operational and …This study aims to present microsimulations of the future of non-contributory social transfers in Brazil, discussing … the models that are strongly progressive (the targeted and the hybrid models) are more efficient to reduce poverty and …

income tax or a consumption tax. The model simulates the impacts of the reforms on household income, poverty and labour … supply. We find that improvements in the means-tested child benefit are well-targeted: They provide a high level of poverty … benefits are increased, the effect on overall income inequality is more pronounced at the cost of reduced labour supply …

poverty and inequality. To that end, we have used data from the 2001-2015 standard National Household Sample Survey (Pesquisa … income as reflected by PNAD (0.7 per cent), the programme has such a significant impact on poverty reduction: its transfers … reduce poverty by 15 per cent and extreme poverty by 25 per cent. Dynamic decompositions of the Gini coefficient suggest that …

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 …

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. …