This book proposes a simple framework for understanding the political economy of subsidy reform andapplies it to four in-depth country studies covering more than 30 distinct episodes of reform.Five key...
This paper quantifies the contributions to poverty reduction observed in Sri Lanka between 2002 and 2012/13.The methods adopted for the analysis generate entire counterfactual distributions to account...
This paper uses the 2010-2011 Income and Expenditure Survey for South Africa to analyze the progressivity of the main tax and social spending programs and quantify their impact on poverty and inequality...