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The changing pattern of returns to education : what impact will this have on inequality?
Patrinos, Harry Anthony - 2019
The pattern of economic rates of return to investments in education can help us to understand the benefits of schooling. It was common knowledge that the returns to education were highest for the primary level of education and lower for subsequent levels. Recent evidence suggests that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012051818
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How much does reducing inequality matter for global poverty?
Lakner, Christoph; Mahler, Daniel Gerszon; Negre, Mario; … - 2019
to 2030 under different assumptions about growth and inequality. This allows for quantifying the interdependence of the … poverty and inequality goals. The paper uses different assumptions about growth incidence curves to model changes in … inequality and relies on the Model-based Recursive Partitioning machine-learning algorithm to model how growth in GDP is passed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012051829
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The redistributive effects of fiscal policy in Mali and Niger
Hounsa, Thierry; Coulibaly, Mohamed; Sanoh, Aly - 2019
This study assesses the redistributive effects of fiscal policy in Mali and Niger. Fiscal policy is poverty increasing in Mali (by 2.4 percentage points) and Niger (2.5 percentage points). This is a result of primarily two factors: indirect taxes (value-added taxes and import duties) and direct...
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Poverty, inequality, and agriculture in the EU
Azevedo, João Pedro; Brink, Rogerius Johannes Eugenius … - 2018
Boosting convergence and shared prosperity in the European Union achieved renewed urgency after the global financial crisis of 2008. This paper assesses the role of agriculture and the Common Agricultural Program in achieving this. The paper sheds light on the relationship between poverty and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012002270
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Mongolia : distributional impact of taxes and transfers
Freije, Samuel; Yang, Judy S. - 2018
transfers. The findings show that the system is progressive and contributes to reductions in poverty and inequality. The Gini …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012002282
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Assessing the effects of fiscal policies on poverty and inequality : the case of Uruguay
Bucheli, Marisa; Ibarra, Gabriel Lara; Tuzman, Diego - 2020
inequality, with government expenditures in the form of in-kind transfers leading to the largest decreases. While expenditures in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012434634
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Children on the move : progressive redistribution of humanitarian cash transfers among refugees
Özler, Berk; Çelik, Çiğdem; Cunningham, Scott; … - 2020
households to smaller eligible ones. A sharp decline in inequality is observed in the entire study population: the Gini index …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012390657