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Does the depth of informality influence welfare in urban sub-Saharan Africa?THIS ARTICLE IS ON EARLY VIEW | We explore the relationship between household welfare and informality, measuring household informality as the share of members’ activities (hours worked or income) without social insurance...
Informality Measurement PovertyWorking Paper
Migration out of poverty: The case of post-war migration in MozambiqueInternal migration plays an important role in the economic development of individuals, their families, and their country...
Internal migration Migration MozambiqueJournal Article
The role of automatic stabilizers and emergency tax–beneft policies during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from EcuadorBy combining household survey data before and during the COVID-19 pandemic with detailed tax-benefit simulations, this paper quantifies the distributional effects of COVID-19 in Ecuador and the role of tax-benefit policies in mitigating the immediate...
COVID-19 Microsimulation PovertyWorking Paper
Tax–benefit responses in Uruguay during the COVID-19 pandemicWe analyse the social protection policy response to COVID-19 and its impact on household incomes in Uruguay during 2020 and 2021, based on static microsimulation methods...
COVID-19 Taxes BenefitsWorking Paper
Distributional impacts of agricultural policies in Zambia: A microsimulation approachThis paper examines the distributional impacts of agricultural policies versus those of cash transfers using a tax–benefit microsimulation model for Zambia for the policy year 2020...
Agricultural policy Tax Cash transfersJournal Article
Receiving more, expecting less?: Social ties, clientelism and the poor’s expectations of future service provisionPart of Journal Special Issue Clientelist Politics and Development
vote-buying Clientelism Social cohesionWorking Paper
Who was impacted and how? COVID-19 pandemic and the long uneven recovery in IndiaWe investigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on income levels, poverty, and inequality in both the immediate aftermath and during the uneven recovery until December 2021 using high-frequency household survey data from India...
COVID-19 Poverty InequalityNews
UNU-WIDER alum Nanak Kakwani releases a new book on poverty and inequalityProfessor Nanak Kakwani is one of UNU-WIDER's first research fellows. Joining the institute in 1986, he is the author of the second WIDER Working Paper ever published. The first is Food, Economics, and Entitlements by UNU-WIDER founder and Nobel...
Economics Poverty InequalityJournal Article
Income distribution and the potential of redistributive systems in Africa: A decomposition approachRedistributive systems in Africa are still in their infancy but are expanding in order to finance increasing public spending...
Tax-benefit microsimulation Tax-benefit policy MicrosimulationWorking Paper
Social distress and (some) relief: Estimating the impact of pandemic job loss on poverty in South AfricaUp-to-date, nationally representative household income/expenditure data are crucial to estimating poverty during the COVID-19 pandemic and to policy-making more broadly, but South Africa lacks such data...
COVID-19 Poverty Labour marketWorking Paper
PROCEDE: a failed programme to reduce poverty and inequalities in MexicoThis paper analyses the land tenure reform that took place in Mexico in 1992 and its PROCEDE programme (Ejido Rights Certification Programme)...
Land tenure Poverty InequalitiesWorking Paper
Inclusion amid ethnic inequality: Insights from Brazil’s social protection systemPolicy frames in Brazil have long run up against conflicting visions and understandings about the causes and consequences of group-based inequality. This paper argues that a class-based lens has dominated the social protection framework...
Group-based inequality Poverty RacePresentation
Social mobility in developing countries: Pathways for research and policySocial mobility is critical to major global goals, those enshrined in the Sustainable Development Goals and to the broader goals of development. Yet, little attention has been given to a serious study of social mobility in developing countries to...
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The impact of COVID-19 on consumption poverty in MozambiqueThis study assesses the impact of COVID-19 on household consumption poverty. To predict changes in income and the associated effects on poverty, we rely on existing estimated macroeconomic impacts...
COVID-19 Poverty InequalityPresentation
Social mobility in developing countries: Pathways for research and policy at Shiv Nadar UniversitySocial mobility is critical to major global goals, those enshrined in the Sustainable Development Goals and to the broader goals of development. Yet, little attention has been given to a serious study of social mobility in developing countries to...
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Poverty, inequality, and growth: trends, policies, and controversiesReducing poverty and inequality and promoting inclusive growth are fundamental to achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Much has changed in the global economy in recent decades and perspectives on progress made vary widely...
Poverty Inequality Growth