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 …In 2014, prior to the political transition of 2015 towards democracy, the government published the Myanmar National …

This study aims to analyze the contribution of the minimum wage valorization policy to the reduction in poverty that … occurred in the first decade of the 21st century in Brazil, considering not only the incidence of poverty but also its … intensity and severity. A decomposition methodology was used to isolate the marginal contribution of the minimum wage in the …

Absolute poverty has dropped markedly in Bulgaria but income inequality has increased substantially in the aftermath of … the GFC. This increase is due to a rise in market income inequality that was compounded by a reduction in fiscal … redistributive efficiency. The COVID-19 crisis is likely to deepen income inequality, increasing the room for redistributive policies …

- better cushions the poverty effects of income shocks in a developing economy. We compare the effectiveness of the three … benefit schemes on poverty first conceptually and then by considering two different crisis scenarios, the COVID-19 pandemic … the proxy-means-tested benefits are the most effective in reducing the poverty gap index, a simple categorical benefit is …