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The paper examines the redistributive effect achieved by the tax-benefit system in Mexico in 2012 using personal income tax, indirect taxes, social security contributions and social benefits. Our goal is to analyze progressivity of the fiscal system and go further to demonstrate how the...
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framework. Targeting dominance techniques are also proposed to assess the normative robustness of targeting strategies. The … perspectives in designing efficient multidimensional poverty targeting policies. …
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Variations in aggregate poverty indices can be due to differences in average poverty intensity, to changes in the welfare distances between those poor of initially unequal welfare status, and/or to emerging disparities in welfare among those poor of initially similar welfare status. This note...
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poverty alleviation policies. We find inter alia that the social ranking of commodity and socio-demographic targeting in …
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decomposed simply as sums of targeting dominance curves and allocation dominance ones, and can serve to verify whether the …
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This paper suggests a methodology to identify socially-desirable directions for poverty-alleviating tax reforms. The cost-benefit ratio of increasing any commodity-tax rate is derived from the minimization of a poverty measure subject to a revenue requirement for the government. Further, to...
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that targeting by commodities is not an effective way to fight against poverty and so, it is unlikely that restructuring …
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quality; in the second one, they send costly signals thereof. Under non-comparative advertising a firm advertises its own … quality, under comparative advertising a firm advertises the quality differential. In either scenario, under comparative … advertising the firms never advertise together which they may do under non-comparative advertising. Moreover, under comparative …
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, consumers do not. Under non-comparative advertising a firm may signal its own quality. Under comparative advertising firms may … scenarios equilibria are revealing. Under comparative advertising the firms never advertise together which they may do under non …-comparative advertising. …
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