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How can poverty reduction be improved and at what cost? Available evidence suggests that social investment strategies … and employment policies are important but not sufficient. In order to reduce the number of people below the relative at-risk-of-poverty … paper we show that this is not a cheap option. We calculate the hypothetical cost of closing the poverty gap while …
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Minimum Income (MI) schemes are essential to alleviate poverty and guarantee a last-resort safety net to households … with insufficient resources. Assessing the effectiveness of MI schemes in poverty reduction is challenging. Studies based … receipts. Studies based on microsimulation models tend to overestimate these benefits mainly due to lack of data on take-up and …
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, child poverty remains high as compared to other EU countries, possibly pointing to a weaker role of the public sector in …-related tax reliefs). To measure these three dimensions, we use EUROMOD, the tax-benefit microsimulation model for the EU. We … support also reduces poverty intensity and incidence, although not to a large extent. …
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Spanish regions using EUROMOD. Our results show that the IMV reduces inequality and poverty - general and extreme - for all … effects on inequality and poverty that the elimination of current RMI and the introduction of the new IMV would generate …The "Minimum Vital Income" (IMV) constitutes a novelty in the panorama for fighting poverty by guaranteeing minimum …
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the effects of four UBI schemes on poverty and inequality measures during normal times and times of crisis in Uganda and … benefit leads to higher poverty and inequality compared to existing benefits. By contrast, in Uganda, a country with only one … notable social protection programme, all UBI scenarios reduce poverty and inequality. Differences between welfare estimates …
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Using the tax-benefit microsimulation model EUROMOD and Family Resources Survey, we investigate what would have … happened to child poverty in the UK in the periods 2010/11-2015/16 and 2015/16-2020/21 under a range of different indexation … scenarios of children's benefits. We find that between 2010/11 and 2015/16 both the relative and absolute child poverty rates …
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Surveys (DHS) which lack information on incomes. This makes an analysis of trends and determinants of poverty and inequality … poverty and inequality in Bolivia. … paper, we adjust a technique developed for poverty mapping exercises to link urban household income surveys with DHS data to …
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highlight that the final impacts on poverty and inequality are heterogeneous across population groups. …-benefit microsimulation model for Zambia for the policy year 2020. The analysis also considers the behavioural impacts of input subsidies and … social cash transfers. The results indicate that Zambian agricultural policies reduce headcount poverty by 3-5 percentage …
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model, to measure the effects of the RdC in terms of inequality reduction and, as a novel contribution, of absolute poverty … reducing inequality, and attenuating the incidence, and even more so the intensity, of absolute poverty. We also document how … minimum income scheme in Italy. In this paper, we use BIMic, the Bank of Italy’s static (non-behavioural) microsimulation …
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This paper presents findings on the changing effectiveness of cash transfers and income taxes on inequality and poverty … relationship between the concentration of cash transfers net of direct taxes and their effectiveness in terms of reducing poverty … and inequality. The strength of the relationship varies between countries and in some cases between the all age and the …
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