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Income Inequality and Fiscal Policy
Coady, David; Gupta, Sanjeev - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2012
Staff Discussion Notes showcase the latest policy-related analysis and research being developed by individual IMF staff and are published to elicit comment and to further debate. These papers are generally brief and written in nontechnical language, and so are aimed at a broad audience...
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Inequality and Unsustainable Growth; Two Sides of the Same Coin?
Ostry, Jonathan David; Berg, Andrew - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2011
This note raises the IMF’s profile on a number of issues related to inequality, unemployment, governance, etc. It builds on earlier empirical work that examined correlations between growth downbreaks/duration of growth spells and a range of macro/policy/institutional factors. This paper is...
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Income Distribution and Tax and Government Social Spending Policies in Developing Countries
Chu, Ke-young; Davoodi, Hamid Reza; Gupta, Sanjeev - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2000
health care and primary and secondary education programs in developing countries are not well targeted, but their incidence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005248221
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Determinants of Tax Revenue Efforts in Developing Countries
Gupta, Abhijit Sen - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007
This paper contributes to the existing empirical literature on the principal determinants of tax revenue performance across developing countries by using a broad dataset and accounting for some econometric issues that were previously ignored. The results confirm that structural factors such as...
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Global Poverty Estimates; A Sensitivity Analysis
Minoiu, Camelia; Dhongde, Shatakshee - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2011
Current estimates of global poverty vary substantially across studies. In this paper we undertake a novel sensitivity analysis to highlight the importance of methodological choices in estimating global poverty. We measure global poverty using different data sources, parametric and nonparametric...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009369432
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How Does Trade Openness Influence Budget Deficits in Developing Countries?
Combes, Jean-Louis; Saadi-Sedik, Tahsin - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006
This paper analyzes the effects of trade openness on budget balances by distinguishing the effects of natural openness from those of trade-policy induced openness. Using the GMMsystem estimator, the econometric analysis focuses on 66 developing countries during 1974-98. The results show that...
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How Useful Are Benefit Incidence Analyses of Public Education and Health Spending
Tiongson, Erwin; Davoodi, Hamid Reza; Asawanuchit, … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2003
incidence of education and health spending covering 56 countries over 1960-2000, representing a significant improvement in … paper finds, among other things, that overall education and health spending are poorly targeted; benefits from primary … education and primary health care go disproportionately to the middle class, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, HIPCs and …
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Indirect Taxation in Developing Countries; A General Equilibrium Approach
Bovenberg, Ary Lars - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 1986
Indirect taxes are an important element in stabilization tax packages that aim at raising revenue in the short run. This paper evaluates, by using a general equilibrium model, alternative instruments of indirect taxation in middle-income developing countries. It uses data for Thailand as an...
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When is Growth Pro-Poor? Cross-Country Evidence
Kraay, Aart - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2004
Growth is pro-poor if the poverty measure of interest falls. This implies three potential sources of pro-poor growth: (a) a high rate of growth of average incomes; (b) a high sensitivity of poverty to growth in average incomes; and (c) a poverty-reducing pattern of growth in relative incomes. I...
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The Endogenous Skill Bias of Technical Change and Inequality in Developing Countries
Behar, Alberto - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2013
This paper draws on existing empirical literature and an original theoretical model to argue that globalization and skill supply affect the extent to which technology adoption in developing countries favors skilled workers. Developing countries are experiencing technical change that is...
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