Clearly, with only a few data points currently available for assessing post-crisis policy reforms, a comparison with pre-crisis trends is necessarily preliminary. Indeed, in view of the scale of social, economic and fiscal challenges resulting from the GR, its consequences for redistribution policy will continue to play out over an extended period of time. However, because the crisis has led to a spike in reform activity, an assessment of the associated distributional consequences thus far is both interesting and important. In line with most cross-country studies of income inequality, we focus on interpersonal redistribution (between income groups), rather than iateitemporally (over the life cycle).