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Assessing the Redistributive Effect of Fiscal Policy

Essama-Nssah, B. - 2012

Who benefits from public spending? Who bears the burden of taxation? How desirable is the distribution of net benefits from the operation of a tax-benefit system? This paper surveys basic concepts, methods, and modeling approaches commonly used to address these issues in the context of fiscal...

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The Poverty and Distributional Impact of Macroeconomic Shocks and Policies : A Review of Modeling Approaches

Essama-Nssah, B. - 2012

The importance of distributional issues in policymaking creates a need for empirical tools to assess the social impact of economic shocks and policies. This paper reviews some of the modeling approaches that are currently in use at the World Bank and other international financial institutions....

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Simulating the Poverty Impact of Macroeconomic Shocks and Policies

Essama-Nssah, B. - 2012

open economy. It is observed that, while aggregate welfare and poverty effects may be negligible, the structural and … distributional impacts tend to be significant. The latter drive the political economy of policymaking and point to the need for an … analytical framework that accounts for both the structural richness of the economy and the heterogeneity of the stakeholders …

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A Unified Framework for Pro-Poor Growth Analysis

Essama-Nssah, B. - 2013

Starting with a general impact indicator as an evaluation criterion, The author offers an integrative framework for a unified discussion of various concepts and measures of pro-poor growth emerging from the current literature. He shows that whether economic growth is considered pro-poor depends...

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