In response to a growing interest in comparing inequality levels and trends across countries,
a number of cross-national inequality databases are now available. These databases differ …

Poverty remains a pervasive and complex phenomenon in Sub-Saharan Africa. Part of the
agenda in recent years to tackle poverty in Africa has been the launching of social safety …

Seekings and Nattrass explain why poverty persisted in South Africa after the transition to
democracy in 1994. The book examines how public policies both mitigated and reproduced …

One of the most valuable features of Capital and Ideology is its concern to take history
seriously and consider how the emergence of different political and economic regimes relate …

This paper examines the redistributive impact of fiscal policy for Brazil, Chile, Colombia,
Indonesia, Mexico, Peru and South Africa using comparable fiscal incidence analysis with …

To analyze anti-poverty policies in tandem with the taxes used to pay for them, comparisons
of poverty before and after taxes and transfers are often used. We show that these …

This paper reflects on the trajectory of social policy in South Africa (1994–2017) and on
which policy levers present opportunities for cross-country policy transfer, in order to …

The title of this article draws on a Yorùbá aphorism that roughly translates into 'don't sell me
a dummy'. The dark side of social policy, the theme of this Debate, has a distinct character in …

Current policy discussion focuses primarily on the power of fiscal policy to reduce inequality.
Yet, comparable fiscal incidence analysis for 28 low and middle income countries reveals …

S uppose we observe that income inequality after taxes and transfers is lower than prefiscal
income inequality. Can this finding be related to the characteristics of the tax and transfer …