PIRAEE, KHOSROW; SHAHSAVAR, MOHAMMAD REZA - In: Middle East Development Journal (MEDJ) 03 (2011) 02, pp. 233-246
Government fiscal policy can be said to be pro-poor if it benefits the poor more than the nonpoor. This research, by using the concept of social welfare, identifies which goods and services should be subsidized or taxed to maximize social welfare. For this purpose, the concept of the elasticity...