This study examines the impact of international economic sanctions, imposed on Iran due to its nuclear program, on the … for Iran, using a weighted average of other comparable countries that mirror pre-sanction Iran, but did not experience … significant international sanctions. By comparing the middle-class size of this counterfactual Iran with the actual Iran that …

paper is to deliver a fresh assessment of the evolution of inequality and poverty across OECD countries over the last … overall income inequality masks compensating changes between the lower and upper halves of the income distribution. Also, it … explores whether contracting inequalities coexist with increasing poverty. The paper adds to previous studies by introducing …

. The findings show that the pandemic is likely to have significant long-run consequences in terms of incomes and poverty if …

counter-sanctions real GDP per capita, FDI net inflows and income inequality fell, while the ban on agricultural and food …Taking the multilateral sanctions program launched against Russia in 2014 as a case study, this paper investigates the … economic effects of sanctions and counter-sanctions on a target economy. A synthetic control method for comparative case …

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

In this paper, we analyze the effect of US economic sanctions on the target countries' poverty gap during the period …' economic and political environment and the likelihood of being exposed to US sanctions. Our results indicate that US sanctions … are indeed affecting the wrong people as we observe a 2.3-5.1 percentage points (pp) larger poverty gap in sanctioned …

In this paper, we analyze the effect of US economic sanctions on the target countries' poverty gap during the period …' economic and political environment and the likelihood of being exposed to US sanctions. Our results indicate that US sanctions … are indeed affecting the wrong people as we observe a 2.3 - 5.1 percentage points (pp) larger poverty gap in sanctioned …

carbon emissions. This study investigates the impact of sanctions on Iran's energy efficiency across different industrial sub …-sectors from 2015 to 2019. We compute a sanctions index for each industrial sub-sector by using Principal Component Analysis (PCA …). This index measures how much each sub-sector has been affected by sanctions. Additionally, energy efficiency is measured …

people at the lower end of income distribution will graduate into the middle class category. The increase in poverty rates …

Income inequality is on the rise, and everyone, from President Obama and Pope Francis to Prince Charles and Standard … is as true in Canada as it is in almost all of the other rich countries where inequality has risen. In this paper I tell … two stories about inequality – one from the perspective of those who feel it is not a problem worth the worry, and the …