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. …

To analyse in-work poverty, we build a model in which human capital and productivity varies over time with experience …, time-related obsolescence and poverty. The model reveals four possible trajectories: poverty to exclusion; permanent … poverty; the emergence from poverty; poverty to non-poor worker and back to poverty. It also generates the main traits of in …

issue of poverty. Growth of prosperity is not distributed evenly among the Polish citizens, and some of them still cannot … satisfy even basic needs. The improvement of an overall economic situation reduces risk of poverty in general. However, in … case the risk occurs, efficient and effective support measures should be provided. First part of the report defines poverty …

usurious interest rates; and critics even question the ability of microfinance to alleviate poverty. This article reviews … number of theoretical issues, such as how to define poverty, how to understand exploitation, and how to balance financial and …

large extent in areas where cartels were active without incidents of drug related homicides. On the other, poverty increased … increase in poverty. In the most violent areas the number of employers and remunerations declined in key industries, such as … manufacturing. In the least violent areas poverty increased possibly due to people migrating from the more violent places. …

This paper examines different approaches to the measurement of multidimensional inequality and poverty. First, it … treatment in poverty measurement. Finally, it reviews the axiomatic approach to inequality analysis. The paper provides a …

In Uruguay the tax structure and social spending reduce inequality and poverty for the whole society (Bucheli et al … question of our paper is whether the reduction of inequality and poverty benefit a racial group over the others or affectracial … ethnic groups equally. The three racial groups are equally likely to be taken off extreme poverty by the direct transfer …

In Uruguay, social spending reduces poverty. The aim of this paper is to compare its performance for children and the … elderly. The main motivation is that in Uruguay, as in the rest of Latin America, poverty affects mostly children, even after … the recent period of fall in poverty. The methodological strategy consists on the estimation of the effect of transfers on …