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Socially-Efficient Tax Reforms
Duclos, Jean-Yves; Makdissi, Paul; Wodon, Quentin - Département d'Économique, Université Laval - 2002
improving social welfare or decreasing poverty for large classes of social welfare and poverty indices. We also derive … estimators of critical poverty lines and economic efficiency ratios which can be used to characterize socially-efficient tax …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005670335
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Poverty-Reducing Tax Reforms with Heterogeneous Agents
Makdissi, Paul; Duclos, Jean-Yves; Wodon, Quentin - Département d'économique, Faculté d'administration - 2002
The poverty impact of indirect tax reforms is analyzed using sequential stochastic dominance methods. This allows …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005770829
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Poverty-Reducing Tax Reforms with Heterogeneous Agents
Duclos, Jean-Yves; Makdissi, Paul; Wodon, Quentin - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2003
The poverty impact of indirect tax reforms is analyzed using sequential stochastic dominance methods. This allows …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005795969
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Socially-Improving Tax Reforms
Makdissi, Paul; Duclos, Jean-Yves - Département d'économique, Faculté d'administration - 2002
of improving social welfare or decreasing poverty for large classes of social welfare and poverty indices. It also … derives estimators of critical poverty lines and economic efficiency ratios which can be used to characterize socially …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005642145
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Socially-Improving Tax Reforms
Duclos, Jean-Yves; Makdissi, Paul; Wodon, Quentin - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2004
of improving social welfare or decreasing poverty for large classes of social welfare and poverty indices. It also … derives estimators of critical poverty lines and economic efficiency ratios which can be used to characterize socially …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005696314
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Poverty-Reducing Tax Reforms with Heterogeneous Agents
Duclos, Jean-Yves; Makdissi, Paul; Wodon, Quentin - Département d'Économique, Université Laval - 2002
The poverty impact of indirect tax reforms is analyzed using sequential stochastic dominance methods. This allows …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005696413
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Rethinking the measurement of the middle class: Evidence from Egypt
Abu-Ismail, Khalid; Sarangi, Niranjan - 2015
people at the lower end of income distribution will graduate into the middle class category. The increase in poverty rates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011418618
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Group-based inequalities: The case of Viet Nam
2017
welfare indicators, in particular poverty. We also found that horizontal inequality does matter for poverty reduction in Viet … Nam and it needs more attention when designing poverty policies in the future. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011654011
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Anti-discrimination measures in education: A comparative policy analysis
Lenhardt, Amanda; Page, Ella; Sarwar, Moizza Binat; … - 2017
Efforts to tackle discrimination in access to basic services have shown mixed results in different country settings. This study examines the positive and negative outcomes attributed to anti-discrimination measures adopted in different country contexts and analyses the factors contributing to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011688578
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Poverty, inequality, and growth: Trends, policies, and controversies
Ferreira, Ines A.; Salvucci, Vincenzo; Tarp, Finn - 2022
Reducing poverty and inequality and promoting inclusive growth are fundamental to achieving the United Nations … evaluation of the main stylized facts concerning poverty, inequality, and growth. It will uncover existing trends, put …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013364552