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Zaidi, Salman - 2009

factors that help explain observed variation across countries in the level of public support for redistribution, including …

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Truck Drivers and Casual Sex : An Inquiry into the Potential Spread of HIV/AIDS in the Baltic Region

World Bank - 2013

This study, perhaps the first of its kind in this region, is based on a study that explores the practice of casual sex among truck drivers and commercial sex workers in the border areas of Poland and Lithuania at a point of time, and uses this evidence to extrapolate the potential impact on the...

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Global redistribution of income

Bourguignon, François - 2006

with extending this analysis of redistribution to other forms of international factor flows-more specifically, migrant …

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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 …

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Distributional effects of crises : / the role of financial transfers

Halac, Marina - 2003

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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...

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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 …

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