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Silver, Hilary - 2015

In light of the emphasis on “inclusion” in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), this paper contends that social exclusion and inclusion are context-dependent concepts in at least three senses. First, the ideal of an inclusive society varies by country and by region. Second, different...

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The Global Consumption and Income Project (GCIP) : an introduction and preliminary findings

Lahoti, Rahul; Jayadev, Arjun; Reddy, Sanjay - 2015

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Redistributive policies for sustainable development : looking at the role of assets and equity

Kohler, Pierre - 2015

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The insights and illusions of consumption measurements

Battistin, Erich; De Nadai, Michele; Krishnan, Nandini - 2020

Although household well-being is anchored in long-term average rates of consumption, welfare comparisons typically rely on shorter-duration survey measurements. This paper develops a new strategy to identify the distribution of these long-term rates by leveraging a large-scale randomization that...

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Inequality, poverty and the intra-household allocation of consumption in Senegal

De Vreyer, Philippe; Lambert, Sylvie - 2020

. The current practice of ignoring inequality within households could lead to an underestimation of both overall inequality … various effects. In total, two opposing effects, one on mean and one on inequality, compensate each other in terms of the … percent of inequality in Senegal. The authors uncover the fact that household structure and organization are key correlates of …

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The distributive impact of taxes and expenditures in Colombia

Núñez Méndez, Jairo; Olivieri, Sergio; Parra, Julieth; … - 2020

speed up the decline in inequality levels and reduce poverty. This study presents an exhaustive and comprehensive analysis …

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What are the poverty and inequality impacts of fiscal policy in Turkey?

Cuevas, P. Facundo; Lucchetti, Leonardo; Nebiler, Metin - 2020

Fiscal policy is central to not only macroeconomic stability and growth, but also to poverty and inequality reduction … Turkey's achievements against peer countries. The results show that fiscal policy significantly reduces income inequality in … countervail the inequality-increasing impact of indirect taxes. At the bottom of the income distribution, targeted transfers are …

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Income distribution, international integration and sustained poverty reduction

Goldberg, Pinelopi K.; Reed, Tristan - 2020

What is the pathway to development in a world with less international integration? This paper answers this question within a model that emphasizes the role of demand-side constraints on national development, which is identified with sustained poverty reduction. In this framework, development is...

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How much does reducing inequality matter for global poverty?

Lakner, Christoph; Mahler, Daniel Gerszon; Negre, Mario; … - 2019

to 2030 under different assumptions about growth and inequality. This allows for quantifying the interdependence of the … poverty and inequality goals. The paper uses different assumptions about growth incidence curves to model changes in … inequality and relies on the Model-based Recursive Partitioning machine-learning algorithm to model how growth in GDP is passed …

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The redistributive effects of fiscal policy in Mali and Niger

Hounsa, Thierry; Coulibaly, Mohamed; Sanoh, Aly - 2019

This study assesses the redistributive effects of fiscal policy in Mali and Niger. Fiscal policy is poverty increasing in Mali (by 2.4 percentage points) and Niger (2.5 percentage points). This is a result of primarily two factors: indirect taxes (value-added taxes and import duties) and direct...

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