-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 …

This paper estimates urban and rural poverty rates across five Chinese administrative regions (Shanghai, Liaoning … types of government transfer payments that households in poverty received and the ability for such payments to lift … households from poverty are also assessed. Consistent with official estimates, the results highlight substantial disparities in …

children as well as to reduce child poverty. In this study the authors critically investigate this assertion by simulating a … states we estimate the impact on poverty and on the government budget using the European microsimulation model EUROMOD. The … findings suggest that to achieve significant poverty reductions among young children, both additional childcare slots and …

, child poverty remains high as compared to other EU countries, possibly pointing to a weaker role of the public sector in … support also reduces poverty intensity and incidence, although not to a large extent. …

Reducing poverty remains an important challenge, and the COVID-19-crisis may further reinforce social vulnerabilities …. Although it has declined lately, relative poverty remains high in international comparison and is distributed unevenly across … particularly affected. A comprehensive approach is required to ensure an effective transition out of poverty and social exclusion …