Since 2008, the Commitment to Equity (CEQ) project has produced the most comprehensive open-access evidence base on the redistributive impact of fiscal policy in low- and middle-income countries. The CEQ methodology has been applied in more than 70 countries, and the CEQ indicator of fiscal redistribution was adopted by the United Nations as Sustainable Development Goal Indicator 10.4.2.

The Institute is now entering a new phase. CEQ's research is broadening to a wider set of questions on inequality, poverty, and the policy levers that shape them — including the measurement and incorporation of top incomes, multidimensional aggregate indicators of wellbeing, and the distributional impact of public policy beyond taxes and transfers.

The CEQ Institute’s website is being redesigned to reflect this broader agenda. In the meantime, the CEQ Handbook and the CEQ Standard Indicators remain available below:

• CEQ Handbook, Second Edition (Brookings, 2022) — open-access edition made possible by a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation:
  Volume 1 · Volume 2
• CEQ Data Center — Standard Indicators: link
• CEQ Stata Package: link

The CEQ Working Paper Series is available through RePEC: ideas.repec.org/s/tul/ceqwps.html