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Governments in low- and middle-income countries face a trade-off between raising tax revenue to strengthen social protection and creating incentives to enter formal employment. In developed countries so called in-work transfers (i.e., social benefits paid upon condition of being employed) have been...
What was the impact on earnings of the economic crisis caused by the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Ecuador? To what extent did social assistance programmes compensate household income losses? ECUAMOD, the tax-benefit microsimulation model for Ecuador, helps to assess the distributional...
Book Chapter
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From the book:
Growth, Employment, and Poverty in Latin America
Research Brief
During the 1990s, inequality in Ecuador increased because of a natural disaster and deep economic and financial crisis, as well as the impact of liberalization of the trade and financial sectors on labour markets Falling income equality in Ecuador during the 2000s partly coincides with the rise to...
Book Chapter
– Rising and Falling Income Inequality in the 1990s and 2000s
From the book:
Falling Inequality in Latin America
Book Chapter
– Longitudinal Results from Guayaquil, Ecuador
From the book:
Urbanization and Development
Book Chapter
– Estimating Local Inequality in Three Developing Countries
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Spatial Inequality and Development
Book Chapter
– Methodology and Evidence from Three Developing Countries
From the book:
Growth, Inequality and Poverty
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