trade-offs of benefit designs, estimating costs and impacts on poverty and inequality and assessing operational and … the models that are strongly progressive (the targeted and the hybrid models) are more efficient to reduce poverty and … inequality than universal transfers. The hybrid model presents results close to those estimated for the targeted model and has …

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 …-off. Finally, we show that in the past few years poverty rates were much more sensitive to changes in inequality than in average …

changes at the extremes of the distribution might obscure inequality's actual dimension, and thereby help perpetuate it. To … avoid this, the present paper discusses a complementary indicator for the measurement of inequality: the ratio of the income …

Poverty and income inequality have worsened since the onset of the crisis. While the design of fiscal measures has …

We apply a standard tax-and-benefit-incidence analysis to estimate the impact on inequality and poverty of direct taxes …. The impact of transfers on inequality and poverty reduction could be higher if spending on direct cash transfers that are … extent of inequality reduction induced by direct taxes and transfers is rather small (2 percentage points on average …

methodology which gives a linkage between costs of MDG, growth, poverty, and inequality. In this study, the methodology is applied … dollars in order to achieve the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of halving poverty between 1990 and 2015. It provides a … only to the head-count poverty measure but is applicable to other poverty measures. This study takes into account the …

We apply a standard tax and benefit incidence analysis to estimate the impact on inequality and poverty of direct taxes …. The impact of transfers on inequality and poverty reduction could be higher if spending on direct cash transfers that are … extent of inequality reduction induced by direct taxes and transfers is rather small (2 percentage points on average …

We apply a standard tax and benefit incidence analysis to estimate the impact on inequality and poverty of direct taxes …. The impact of transfers on inequality and poverty reduction could be higher if spending on direct cash transfers that are … extent of inequality reduction induced by direct taxes and transfers is rather small (2 percentage points on average …

This paper contributes to the methodological literature on the estimation of international poverty lines for Latin … America based on the official poverty lines chosen by the Latin American governments and commonly used in the public debate …. The paper exploits a comprehensive data set of 86 up-to-date official extreme and total urban poverty lines across 18 …

inequality sensitive view of multi-dimensional poverty when only ordinal (dichotomized) variables are available. We use such an …, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica, shedding thus some light on gender differences in poverty and inequality in those … multidimensional poverty in Central America are higher among females; inequality, however, is somewhat higher among males. …