inequality, to strengthen the current program to fight against poverty in the country. The main result must be to generate …This research analyzes the economic impact of three alternative tax reforms on the Mexican economy, poverty and … greater economic impact and reduce poverty in greater proportion, should increase Oportunidades program funds financed through …

index of inequality elasticity of poverty. The study puts forward a scenario matrix to hypothesize the four qualities of … growth according to its interactions with inequality and poverty. This model is useful for developing countries that lack GDP … poverty measures. …

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. …

trends of poverty and inequality in Indonesia with a particular focus on the decentralisation period from 2001 to 2010.The … estimates of growth and inequality elasticity of poverty suggest that this rising inequality has been offsetting the positive … reduction of poverty over the past three decades, particularly prior to the 1997-98 Asian Financial Crisis. After the crisis …

The study examined the linkages between inequality in household expenditure components and total inequality and poverty …, reducing within-component inequality significantly reduces overall poverty and inequality in Ghana, compared to between … poverty and inequality. The findings imply that policies directed towards reducing within-component inequality will be more …

program on poverty and inequality. Our estimates indicate that the VBSP was quite effective. Participation on average seemed … computations indicate that the program decreased the head count of poverty for its participants by almost four percentage points …. Similarly, the program decreased the poverty gap index and the poverty-severity index by almost twenty percent. The impact on …

inequality. What lies beneath the disquieting poverty standstill and how did welfare states miss this ?window of opportunity?? In … opportunities. Despite these favourable conditions, however, contemporary welfare states did not succeed in reducing poverty and … this article, we aim to shed more light on this question. We identify three structural trends behind the poverty standstill …

This study aims to determine patterns of poverty and inequality in small areas and household characteristics related to …