, that direct taxes and cash transfers are overall progressive and reduce inequality and poverty. Our disaggregated analyses …

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

Using comparable fiscal incidence analysis, this paper examines the impact of fiscal policy on inequality and poverty … targeted at the rich. While fiscal policy always reduces inequality, this is not the case with poverty. Fiscal policy increases …

interventions are therefore seen as instrumental in cushioning against the impact of the crisis on inequality and poverty. Finally …

heterogeneity in the income inequality and poverty-reducing power of LAC fiscal systems. While all LAC fiscal systems reduce income … inequality, fiscal systems in nine LAC countries are poverty-increasing, and this startling characteristic has not improved over …

of changes in employment due to the COVID-19 crisis on inequality and poverty using the recently developed tax … measured by headcount and poverty gap increases because of the COVID-19 outbreak. The pandemic has also worsened inequality as …

This report attempts to examine the impact of the crisis and crisis policies on incomes, inequality and poverty in … and their incidence between 2008 and 2012-13, their impact on pre- and post-tax inequality and the resulting social … contrasting changes in inequality regarding particular sub-groups, that during the crisis all income classes comprise winners and …