poverty and income inequality have invited increasing volumes of research focusing on the nexus between equity and efficient … into a middle income country (ADB, 2014). This has stimulated the need to understand causes of inequality and poverty for … poverty because they will substantially undermine the economic growth if left unchecked (ADB, 2014). The objective of this …

reach a very small proportion of the households with incomes below a relative poverty line. Furthermore, the transfers are … characterized with very high non-take up and inclusion of non-entitled or non-poor recipients. Poverty rates decrease by a small … degree among benefit clients and yet, the impact is insufficient to affect overall poverty, or for the benefits to achieve …

a very small proportion of the households with incomes below a relative poverty line. Furthermore, the transfers are … characterized with very high non-take up and inclusion of non-entitled or non-poor recipients. Poverty rates decrease by a small … degree among benefit clients and yet, the impact is insufficient to affect overall poverty, or for the benefits to achieve …

margins of the poverty line were found to be small and robustness and sensitivity tests were done to accompany simulation … middle income countries that examined optimal approaches to reduce child poverty using universal categorical child allowances …. Simulations found that individual level allowances reduce poverty more than household level allowances. Such individual level …

by falling poverty and fairly stable, or even declining, income inequality. Subsequently, from about the mid-1970s … onwards, a cumulative process of non-farm diversification took hold, and was accompanied by further growth and poverty decline … growth in inequality and has played a particularly pronounced role in reducing poverty. …

part-time work. With involuntary part-time workers, as a particular group of underemployed, facing especially high poverty … rates, this was accompanied by an increase, on average, in the poverty risk associated with working part-time. However, this … was not reflected in a marked increase in the overall in-work poverty rate because full-time work remains dominant and its …

Recent studies find in-work poverty to be a pan-European phenomenon. Yet in-work poverty has come to the fore as a … alleviating poverty among workers, both the policy options and constraints facing Continental European policymakers are … emulated elsewhere. We present micro-simulation derived results for Belgium to illustrate some of these points. Policy options …

Recent studies find in-work poverty to be a pan-European phenomenon. Yet in-work poverty has come to the fore as a … alleviating poverty among workers, both the policy options and constraints facing Continental European policymakers are … emulated elsewhere. We present micro-simulation derived results for Belgium to illustrate some of these points. Policy options …

Recent studies find in-work poverty to be a pan-European phenomenon. Yet in-work poverty has come to the fore as a … alleviating poverty among workers, both the policy options and constraints facing Continental European policymakers are … emulated elsewhere. We present micro-simulation derived results for Belgium to illustrate some of these points. Policy options …