Income inequality and relative poverty in the United States are among the highest in the OECD and have substantially … of growth. The present paper analyses the causes of US income inequality and relative poverty in an OECD context … degree, high income inequality is attributable to the large dispersion of earned income, which should be addressed by …

Poverty and income inequality have worsened since the onset of the crisis. While the design of fiscal measures has …

This paper analyses relative income poverty in Australia of individuals aged 15 or more, based on the HILDA Survey data …. Australia has above-average poverty rates among OECD countries, but poverty has decreased in the last 15 years. Certain groups … are more at risk than others. People living alone and lone parents are at higher risk of poverty. Old people in Australia …

Income inequality in Colombia has declined since the early 2000s but remains very high by international standards …. Reducing income inequality is a key government objective and this requires improving the performance of the labour market …

Employment is pivotal to strengthening Greece’s economic recovery, increasing social welfare and redressing poverty …. A social welfare system dominated by pensions has not been able to prevent a steep hike in poverty among children and …, accompanied by support programmes for jobseekers, will provide a reliable safety net and reduce poverty. This Working Paper …

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 …

-satisfaction. This paper reviews the social progress that Costa Rica has achieved and identifies reducing inequality and poverty as the … by raising their skill levels. This is the most effective way to get people out of poverty. Education is the area where … growth and employment opportunities, thereby providing a way out of poverty. Building on its achievements in this area, Costa …

the Greek crisis on inequality and poverty in 2009-2014 using the micro-simulation model EUROMOD. Specifically, the paper … inequality and poverty due to the recession. As fiscal consolidation intensified in 2012, tax and benefit policies appear to have … exacerbated the adverse distributional effects of the recession, causing poverty and inequality to rise further. From 2013 …

The paper describes inequality trends in selected emerging economies (Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, China, India … of living). To the extent made possible by the nature of available data, measures of income inequality for these emerging … economies covered in the paper show levels of income inequality higher than in the five most unequal OECD countries, while the …

-wage earners would make inroads into poverty and inequality while encouraging formal work. This paper accompanies and extends the … that balances goals of reducing poverty, encouraging employment and fiscal sustainability. Using the OECD’s Tax-Benefit and … revenues and increase inequality, by reducing the progressivity of the personal tax system. A proposed reform package that …