-that of populist pressure on political parties to spend more on the general public good, financed by costly income taxation … groups over group-specific targeted benefits financed by generalized taxation. These models predict that governments …

"The actual distribution of world income across countries is extremely unequal, much higher than the within country … factor movements affect the international distribution of income? To begin to answer this question, the authors calculate the … impact by decile of the actual level of aid flows and the effect on potential income of merchandise trade restrictions by …

"It is acknowledged that the lack of any systematic link between growth and income inequality does not necessarily mean … that economic growth is not accompanied by major changes in the underlying income distribution. The author uses a method … devised to decompose the redistributive effect of a tax to analyze the extent to which vertical redistribution associated with …

existing pattern of income-distribution is equitable and disparity is at the minimum." Vision 2030 is being implemented via a …

Dominican Republic. On the revenue side, the analysis focuses on the personal income tax, the value added tax (tax on the … Dominican Republic. On the revenue side, the analysis focuses on the personal income tax, the value added tax (tax on the …

protection exert a similar benign effect. These findings are in line with the income substitutions view of social safety nets …

. And it shows why global inequality matters and proposes a scheme for global redistribution. "--World Bank web site …

. This paper shows how dynamic pseudo-panel methods can overcome these difficulties, allowing estimation of non-linear income … dynamics and testing for the presence of poverty traps. The paper explicitly allows for individual heterogeneity in income … does not. These methods are used to examine the evidence for a poverty trap in labor earnings, income, and expenditure in …