proven highly effective at reducing poverty and inequality and mitigating the impact of high unemployment, although these …

Absolute poverty has dropped markedly in Bulgaria but income inequality has increased substantially in the aftermath of …

programmes. We conduct a poverty and inequality decomposition analysis as well as a benefit-incidence analysis to examine the … negligible poverty reducing effects at the national level. The contribution of welfare benefits to reducing inequality is mixed … to the distribution of income. Further simulation analysis indicates that expanding coverage under poverty targeting …

costs or the poverty-reducing or developmental benefits. Diverse international organizations have shown that programmes …

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 …

avoid poverty. A new role is emerging for income support: by enabling people to effectively stay home, it can produce … substantial health externalities. We examine this issue using data on human mobility and poverty rates in 729 subnational regions … changes between higher- and lower-poverty regions. Conditional on country-day fixed effects, shelter-in-place orders decrease …