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The Elusive Quest for Inclusive Growth; Growth, Poverty, and Inequality in Asia
Balakrishnan, Ravi; Steinberg, Chad; Syed, Murtaza H. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2013
outcomes. It finds that while poverty has fallen across the region over the last two decades, inequality has increased …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011242249
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Distributional Consequences of Fiscal Consolidation and the Role of Fiscal Policy; What Do the Data Say?
Woo, Jaejoon; Bova, Elva; Kinda, Tidiane; Zhang, … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2013
question. This paper analyzes the effects of fiscal policies on income inequality in a panel of advanced and emerging market … fiscal consolidations are likely to raise inequality through various channels including their effects on unemployment …. Spending-based consolidations tend to worsen inequality more significantly, relative to tax-based consolidations. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011242413
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Kingdom of Lesotho; Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper: Joint Staff Advisory Note
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2006
The Kingdom of Lesotho’s Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper reports that consistent implementation of sound macroeconomic policies is critical to the attainment of poverty reduction objectives. At the central level, the authorities established sector working groups to facilitate the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011245212
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Income Inequality and Redistributive Government Spending
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2003
The paper examines empirically the question of whether more unequal societies spend more on income redistribution than their more egalitarian counterparts. Theoretical arguments on this issue are inconclusive. The political economy literature suggests that redistributive spending is higher in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005248211
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Financial Deepening, Property Rights and Poverty; Evidence From Sub-Saharan Africa
Huang, Yifei; Singh, Raju Jan - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2011
. Its results suggest that financial deepening could narrow income inequality and reduce poverty, and that stronger property …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009293779
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Equity and Fiscal Policy; The Income Distribution Effects of Taxation and Social Spending in Central America
Cubero, Rodrigo; Hollar, Ivanna Vladkova - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2010
How does fiscal policy fare in improving the underlying income distribution in Central America? We integrate the data from a number of existing tax and public expenditure studies for the countries in the region and find that the distributional effect of taxation is regressive but small. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008533235
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005605055
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Inclusive Growth and Inequality in Senegal
Kireyev, Alexei - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2013
The paper examines Senegal’s growth performance from the perspective of its povertyreducing and distributional characteristics, and discusses policies that might help make growth more inclusive. The main findings are that poverty has fallen in the last two decades, but poverty reduction has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010790286
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Inequalities and Growth in the Southern African Customs Union (SACU) Region
Basdevant, Olivier; Benicio, Dalmacio; Yakhshilikov, Yorbol - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2012
This paper applies the work of Berg and Ostry (2011) to the SACU region, to identify how inequalities have played a role in growth in each of these countries, and elaborates policy options to mitigate the effects of inequalities and foster growth. Lower income inequalities could lead to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010790343
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Infrastructure and Income Distribution in ASEAN-5; What are the Links?
Seneviratne, Dulani; Sun, Yan - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2013
Adequate infrastructure has long been viewed as an important factor in economic development. Based on regressions covering 76 advanced and emerging market economies, this paper estimates the impact of infrastructure and investment on income distribution. It finds that better infrastructure, both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011242245