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Olivier Bargain on intra-household allocation and individual poverty
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Inequality expert for SA-TIED hosted on South African national news channel eNCA
Poverty Class Inequality Book Chapter
ChinaFrom the book: Asian Transformations
Transitional economies Economic growth PovertyResearch Brief
Balancing tax collection and equality: The case of value-added tax in South AfricaIn a democratic system, taxation is a critical part of the social contract between the state and its citizens. The tax system can be used to help address the unacceptably high levels of poverty, inequality, and unemployment in South Africa...
value-added tax microsimulation RedistributionBlog
Poverty measurements for policy makers
In order to reduce poverty you must be able to measure it...
Poverty Measurement (Poverty) Multidimensional poverty measurementResearch Brief
Research Brief
Working Paper
How do human rights violations affect poverty and income distribution?The goal of this paper is to examine the impact of human rights on income distribution and poverty by exploring how both aid and trade can influence poverty and income distribution through human rights...
Global Human rights Income inequalityResearch Brief
Journal Article
A Role for Universal Pension?: Simulating Universal Pensions in Ecuador, Ghana, Tanzania and South AfricaPart of Journal Special Issue SOUTHMOD: Modelling Tax-benefit Systems in Developing Countries
Old-age benefit Poverty SOUTHMODWorking Paper
The distributional impact of structural transformation in rural India: Model-based simulation and case-study evidenceThe North Indian village of Palanpur has been the subject of close study over a period of six decades from 1957/8 to 2015. Himanshu et al...
Income inequality non-farm employment PovertySeminar
Vincenzo Salvucci presents at the Inclusive Growth in Mozambique 2019 seminar seriesVincenzo Salvucci, a researcher from the University of Copenhagen, will present a seminar on 13 March 2019 at the Eduardo Mondlane University in Maputo. The seminar is titled Vulnerabilidade às Calamidades Naturais: Avaliação do...
Working Paper
Financing the Zambia social cash transfer scale-up: A tax benefit microsimulation analysis based on MicroZAMODThis paper assesses the effects on poverty and inequality of the alternative targeting approaches that Zambia’s Social Cash Transfer programme could take as its expansion continues during the period of the country’s Seventh National Devel...
Economic inequality Poverty Social cash transfers