different types of interventions to cushion its impact. The analysis forecasts that the number of people living in poverty …

At the beginning of the 21st century, Bolivia presented improvements in the indicators of poverty and monetary … inequality following the trend of Latin America. The analysis of the evolution of the Unsatisfied Basic Needs Index (NBI) also …

At the beginning of the 21st century, Bolivia presented improvements in the indicators of poverty and monetary … inequality following the trend of Latin America. The analysis of the evolution of the Unsatisfied Basic Needs Index (NBI) also …

This paper aims to analyse trends in poverty and inequality in seven African countries using an asset index constructed … rural areas, are thus required. Overall poverty has declined in five of the seven countries. The trends in urban and rural … poverty for the most part mirror these trends in overall poverty. Five of the seven countries experienced an improvement in …

This paper explains how to build Lorenz Curves for income distributions and discusses their use for inequality … and draw Lorenz Curves. A discussion on the use of Lorenz Curves to represent inequality is also provided. It highlights …

substantially reduce poverty and inequality to varying degrees depending on the taxes and transfers used. …In this paper, we use a static fiscal incidence analysis model to evaluate the poverty and inequality impacts of using …

This paper uses several decomposition of poverty and poverty changes to identify factors explaining recent changes in … absolute income and consumption poverty in Poland during 1998−2008. Shapley decompositions of poverty changes into growth and … redistribution components show that fast economic growth was the main source of a radical fall in absolute poverty since 2005 …

transfers and public goods are each integrated into a common optimal tax framework with the income tax and commodity taxes at …

substantially reduce poverty and inequality to varying degrees depending on the taxes and transfers used. …In this paper, we use a static fiscal incidence analysis model to evaluate the poverty and inequality impacts of using …