inflation and measures welfare changes using the compensating variation and equivalent incomes in a cross-national comparative … perspective. The impact of inflation depends on good-specific price increases and budget shares. Budget shares for necessities (e … necessities has resulted in higher inflation in poorer countries. Counter to the media narrative, the distributional impact is …

This paper analyses the distributional impact of high consumer inflation in the euro area and government measures to … quantify the distributional impact of inflation, income support measures and measures aimed at containing prices. The analysis … confirms that purchasing power and welfare were more severely affected by the 2022 inflation surge in lower-income households …

changes. This paper explores the impact of inflation and uses compensating variations and equivalized incomes to measure … shifts in welfare in a cross-country comparative context. The effects of inflation are closely related to specific price … originally thought. Nevertheless, there are notable differences across countries in the level of inflation, its composition, and …

measurement approach that allows us to target the joint distribution of income and wealth. We show that inequality of opportunity …

measurement approach that allows us to target the joint distribution of income and wealth. We show that inequality of opportunity …

,600 estimated Gini coefficient, we review the measurement of income inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean over the last …