Are #Covid #cashtransfer responses in #LatinAmerica sufficiently generous in size? It varies over time and space… New Commitment to Equity paper by Merike Blofield Jenny Pribble & Giambruno 👇 repec.tulane.edu/RePEc/ceq/ceq1…

New Commitment to Equity working paper "Annualizing Labor Market, Inequality, and Poverty Indicators" by Eduardo Lora, Miguel Benítez & Diego Gutiérrez bit.ly/3uEkvWU #Inequality #IncomePoverty

This analysis is around since the 1940s, but Commitment to Equity in collaboration with many international organisations has allowed to implement this in poorer countries as well (now covering 80% of the world's poor).

This is why it is so great to see UN organisations, the World Bank, Commitment to Equity work together with civil society organisations, finding the right narrative and the specific examples to illustrate fiscal policies and their consequences!

New WP - Universal Basic Income Programs: How Much Would Taxes Need to Rise? Evidence for Brazil, Chile, India, Russia, and South Africa by Ali Enami, Ph.D., Ugo Gentilini, Patricio Larroulet, Nora Lustig, Emma Monsalve, Siyu Quan and Jamele Rigolini bit.ly/3BgRyCQ

NEW Commitment to Equity WP 115 Política fiscal e impactos redistributivos en Bolivia: bit.ly/3oghLx2 #Bolivia #FiscalPolicy

New Commitment to Equity WP 117: The Effects Of Fiscal Policy On Inequality And Poverty In The Gambia by Haydeeliz Carrasco, Hamidou Jawara and Moritz Meyer (Moritz Meyer) bit.ly/3vpahw6 #TheGambia #FiscalPolicy #Inequality

NEW Commitment to Equity WP 118 - “Public Expenditures under the 2011-2020 Poverty Reduction Strategy in China" by Samuel Freije and Fuchang Zhao: bit.ly/3KjfxVC

NEW Commitment to Equity WP 119 - "The Redistributive Impact of Fiscal Policies in Costa Rica 2010-2018" by Ludovico Feoli (Ludovico Feoli) and Maynor Cabrera: ideas.repec.org/p/tul/ceqwps/1…

Just posted! Journal of Economic Inequality, special issue: "Finding the Upper Tail" - 13 articles on top-end analyses/adjustments, drawing on impressive array of data and methods. Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality LIS Ecineq Nora Lustig Daniel Waldenström World Inequality Lab | WID.world link.springer.com/journal/10888

NEW Commitment to Equity WP 120 - "Fiscal Policies and their Impact on Income Distribution in India" by Sridhar Kundu and Maynor Cabrera: ideas.repec.org/p/tul/ceqwps/1… #FiscalPolicy #IncomeDistribution #India

Do we know how much inequality there is? See what experts say in our Special Issue of the Journal of Economic Inequality "Finding the Upper Tail" edited by Cowell, Lustig and Waldenström bit.ly/3L3ap8C

El Commitment to Equity Institute Commitment to Equity es un espacio fundado en 2015 por la Dra. Nora Lustig, quien estuvo con nosotros esta mañana durante la reunión virtual.  Conoce más sobre el instituto👇 commitmentoequity.org

We are delighted to announce the launch of the revamped Commitment to Equity Data Center on Fiscal Redistribution. The CEQ Data Center is an information system designed to monitor the impact of fiscal policy on inequality and poverty.

Did you know that Commitment to Equity based indicators were officially incorporated as targets of SDG Goal 1 and SDG Goal 10? Learn more here: bit.ly/3mzc4ZF #SDGs #sustainabledevelopmentgoals UN Development The Sustainable Development Goals #SDG🫶

As part of the revamped CEQ Data Center, we are excited to announce the launch of the CEQ Data Visualization Tools! Our interactive tools enable users to access our data and create cross-country graphs and tables on demand: commitmentoequity.org/datavisualizat…

NEW Commitment to Equity WP 121 - "Income Sources, Intra-Household Allocation And Individual Poverty" by Oliver Bargain: ideas.repec.org/p/tul/ceqwps/1… #IncomeSources #Poverty #EngelCurves #TaxBenefitPolicies #Argentina #SouthAfrica

Congratulations to Gabriel Zucman for 2023 Clark medal! A super well deserved recognition for, among other things, proving JB Clark wrong.

NEW Commitment to Equity WP127 “Counting and Accounting: Measuring the Effectiveness of Fiscal Policy in Multidimensional Poverty Reduction” co-authored by Maria Emma Santos, Maximiliano Miranda Zanetti and myself. commitmentoequity.org/wp-content/upl…