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expenditure, however, has been on large capital-intensive projects rather than on education and other social spending. More … emphasis on education would help reduce the income gap, since human capital is a key determinant of income. Government policies …. Toutefois, les dépenses ont, pour l’essentiel, privilégié les grands projets à forte intensité de capital par rapport à l’éducation …
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This paper analyzes the equity of opportunity in basic education and infrastructure services in seven developing …. Opportunities to access basic education and infrastructure services in the seven countries vary widely in terms of availability and …
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(education and health) in Cameroon. The tax system is generally progressive but less so than the benefits of public expenditure …
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This paper examines the distributional effects of public higher education financing in a lifetime perspective. The … benefits that university graduates obtain in terms of their tertiary education are compared to the graduates’ education …-related (tax) burden. To calculate the education-related tax burden, we resort to the proportionality approach and use data from …
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Estimating the impact of the crisis on income distribution requires up-to-date information. Due to the complexity of income surveys such as EU-SILC, income data usually become available with considerable delay. In this context, micro-simulation models are an appropriate and widely used...
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This paper combines demand analysis with household production to estimate the marginal willingness to pay for improvements in air quality in Italy and the corresponding income elasticity of willingness to pay. We use choice based data on Italian households’ current consumption expenditures...
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This chapter reviews the theory of the voluntary public and private redistribution of wealth elaborated by economic analysis in the last forty years or so. The central object of the theory is altruistic gift-giving, construed as benevolent voluntary redistribution of income or wealth. The theory...
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In this paper, we propose a new measure of horizontal equity that overcomes many of the shortcomings of previous proposed measures. Our starting point is the observation that a well-behaved social welfare function need not evaluate global' (vertical equity) differences in after-tax income using...
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The socioeconomic problem of increasing inequality in income and riches distribution is particularly actual around the world after the beginning of the global crisis of 2008. A number of international studies show that the more egalitarian societies are better positioned in terms of almost every...
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The main features of China’s current sub-national finance arrangements date back to the 1994 tax reform. China has a multi-level government structure that shares national tax revenues through a system of tax sharing and transfers, and divides spending assignments and responsibilities. Local...
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