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-wage earners would make inroads into poverty and inequality while encouraging formal work. This paper accompanies and extends the … that balances goals of reducing poverty, encouraging employment and fiscal sustainability. Using the OECD’s Tax-Benefit and … revenues and increase inequality, by reducing the progressivity of the personal tax system. A proposed reform package that …
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inequality, with government expenditures in the form of in-kind transfers leading to the largest decreases. While expenditures in …'s fiscal policies also lead to a reduction in poverty, mainly due to well-targeted direct transfers …
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households to smaller eligible ones. A sharp decline in inequality is observed in the entire study population: the Gini index … declined by four percentage points (or 15 percent) within six months of program rollout, and the poverty headcount at the …
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transfers. The findings show that the system is progressive and contributes to reductions in poverty and inequality. The Gini ….76 Gini points (around 16 percent). Something similar happens with the poverty rate, which decreases from 47.31 to 31 …
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findings show rising income levels and decreasing inequality, with the latter being mostly caused by pro-poor growth rather … into a market-oriented economy. This paper offers a comprehensive study of inequality and mobility patterns for Russia … than redistribution. The poorest tercile experienced a growth rate that was more than 10 times that of the richest tercile …
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during 1992-2014. The paper finds that, despite a context of overall stagnant economic growth and poverty reduction, there is …This paper exploits a novel municipal-level data set to explore patterns of convergence in income and poverty in Mexico … evidence of income and poverty convergence at the municipal level. The findings suggest that these convergence processes stem …
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