substantially different levels of vulnerability to poverty among population groups facing different risks. In the context of the …

generosity has been conducted; their income redistribution and poverty reduction effects have also been investigated. Results …, achieving the highest poverty headcount reduction. …

We use a fiscal incidence model based on the South African 2014/15 Living Conditions Survey to simulate the poverty … COVID-19 Social Relief of Distress grant upon its expiry and closing the extreme (food poverty line) poverty gap. Our key … findings are that the introduction of a household-targeted family poverty grant is theoretically able to reduce extreme poverty …

children in the income distributions, and to calculate child poverty prevalence, to assess how far children receive transfers … concentrated in the lower quintiles and have higher child poverty prevalence than for adults, but receive lower social protection … both universal and targeted, anti-poverty, outcomes. Different versions of simple static and purely arithmetic micro …

Swedish work-line policy increased the risk of poverty by 1.0 percentage point and the Gini coefficient by 0.4. In Sweden, the … behavioural effects did not fully offset the negative static effects on the risk-of-poverty rate and inequality. From a policy … perspective, the results indicate that the Nordic model is resilient. In Sweden, a significant increase in the risk of poverty …