Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 169
Cover Image
Democracy, public expenditures, and the poor
Keefer, Philip - 2003
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010523273
Cover Image
Partisan politics and intergovernmental transfers in India
Khemani, Stuti - 2003
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010523419
Cover Image
Pakistan - Tax Policy Report : Tapping Tax Bases for Development - Full Report
World Bank - 2012
The main message of this report is that Pakistan can take measures to increase the tax to gross domestic product (GDP) ratio by around 3.5 percentage points over the next five years. In order to ensure a healthy long-run economic development, Pakistan needs to embrace substantial changes in tax...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012550858
Cover Image
Global redistribution of income
Bourguignon, François - 2006
with extending this analysis of redistribution to other forms of international factor flows-more specifically, migrant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522101
Cover Image
Decomposing changes in income inequality into vertical and horizontal redistribution and reranking, with applications to China and Vietnam
Wagstaff, Adam - 2005
devised to decompose the redistributive effect of a tax to analyze the extent to which vertical redistribution associated with … changing incomes over time is offset or reinforced by horizontal redistribution and re-ranking. He uses panel data from China … of horizontal redistribution and re-ranking in both China-and to a lesser extent Vietnam-more than offset pro …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522640
Cover Image
Distributional effects of crises : / the role of financial transfers
Halac, Marina - 2003
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010523264
Cover Image
Uruguay : Income Transfer Policies in Uruguay, Closing the Gaps to Increase Welfare
World Bank - 2012
Uruguay's Government is currently analyzing several reform strategies for the social sectors. These include a health reform, the introduction of a new poverty alleviation program, possible changes in pensions and unemployment insurance, and also a tax reform, that impacts the income transfer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012553263
Cover Image
Federative Republic of Brazil - Social Insurance and Labor Supply : Assessing Incentives and Redistribution
World Bank - 2013
system in terms of incentives and redistribution. It starts with an overview of institutional arrangements, programs, and … could 'correct' incentives by making redistribution more transparent and progressive. A behavioral life-cycle model …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012557874
Cover Image
Decentralization, democracy, and development : recent experience from Sierra Leone
Zhou, Yongmei (contributor) - 2009
This publication addresses the question of whether political, fiscal, and administrative decentralization improves government effectiveness and the debate on whether it is a viable and desirable state-building strategy for post-conflict countries. The publication is a collection of eight papers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011393387
Cover Image
Political institutions and human development : Does democracy fulfil its 'constructive' and 'instrumental' role?
Vollmer, Sebastian - 2009
performance of democracy is rather independent of the circumstances. However, democracy leads to more redistribution in favor of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394112