Egypt also led to a decrease in poverty, mostly from the flagship Tamween program. Poverty and inequality could be reduced … Republic of Egypt. Using a broadly applied methodology, a fiscal incidence analysis is conducted using survey and government … countries, Egypt's overall fiscal policy placed it in the median of the distribution of inequality reduction. Fiscal policies in …

conducted by Egypt?s national statistical agency, compares the changes in the static poverty profiles (based on growth incidence … initially non-poor households were exposed to poverty. As a matter of fact, only 45 percent of the population in Egypt remained …This paper presents a detailed picture of how sustained growth in Egypt over 2005-2008 affected different groups both …

By all accounts, income inequality in Egypt is low and had been declining during the decade that preceded the 2011 … compared with 418 household surveys worldwide. Hence, income inequality in Egypt is confirmed to be low while the distribution …

house prices to estimate the top tail of the income distribution. In an application to Egypt, where estimates of inequality … indeed being underestimated by a considerable margin. The Gini index for urban Egypt is found to increase from 36 to 47 after …

policy in Chile in 2013. Four results are indicative of an overall positive net effect of fiscal interventions on poverty and … inequality. First, subsidies exert a positive, yet modest effect on poverty and inequality, whereas direct transfers are … progressive, equalizing, and reduce the poverty headcount by 4 to 5 percentage points, depending on the poverty line used. Second …

This paper assesses the impact of fiscal policy on the incidence, depth, and severity of poverty, and examines whether … combined effect of taxes and social spending helped substantially to reduce poverty and inequality in Poland in 2014, in line … capacity to redistribute, it had a relatively weak capacity to reduce poverty given the resources at its disposal, and this was …