Fiscal policy can change poverty and inequality substantially or slightly depending on the government’s redistributive … and human capital accumulation, as well as with reducing inequality. The Commitment to Equity Assessment (CEQ) evaluates … independent evaluations. CEQ relies on inequality, poverty and tax and benefit incidence analyses. …

Inequality and poverty fell sharply in many Latin American countries during a decade in which voters in ten countries … econometric evidence that social democratic regimes in Brazil and Chile were more successful at reducing inequality and poverty … Venezuela started the 1990-2008 sample window with lower levels of inequality, so to some extent recent reductions in inequality …

disposable income inequality and poverty rose markedly between 2006 and 2009 primarily due to the launching of a noncontributory …

We review the literature on the links between inequality, growth and welfare. Three questions are addressed: 1) What is … the impact of growth and development on inequality? 2) What is the impact of inequality on growth, development and welfare … impact of inequality on growth is twofold. Firstly, inequality fosters growth when this is based on capital accumulation, but …

Taxes and transfers can have significant impacts on poverty and inequality. All standard measures are by definition … transfers can lower inequality and poverty (including the severity of poverty) but still make a subgroup of the poor worse off … when standard poverty and inequality indicators decline and overall taxes are progressive. …

Inequality in Mexico rose between 1989 and 1994 and declined between 1994 and 2010. We examine the role of market … (cash transfers) in explaining changes in inequality. We apply the ‘re-centered influence function’ method to decompose …-in demand; institutional factors were not relevant. Government transfers contributed to the decline in inequality, especially …

This paper documents patterns and recent developments on income inequality in Latin America (LA). New comparative … international evidence confirms that LA is a region of high inequality, although maybe not the highest in the world. Income … inequality has fallen in the 2000s, suggesting a turning point from the substantial increases of the 1980s and 1990s. The fall in …

In the paper, a combined approach is used to test for inequality differences of several well-being categories for a … number of groups of persons. Hereby, total inequality is decomposed into within- and into between-group/category inequality … (via a normalised coefficient of variation as the used inequality indicator). The decompositions are categorised into those …