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This paper synthesizes the evidence of a negative correlation between income inequality and environmental quality. It … shows that inequality exerts adverse impact on environmental outcomes through several channels, including the household … impact of inequality. Other dimensions of inequality, in particular gender inequality, also impact environmental quality …
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speed up the decline in inequality levels and reduce poverty. This study presents an exhaustive and comprehensive analysis …
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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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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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transfers. The findings show that the system is progressive and contributes to reductions in poverty and inequality. The Gini …
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inequality. To reduce the incidence of low-quality jobs, tax policy interventions should go hand in hand with more effective …
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This paper documents inequality in health and education outcomes by constructing an index of human capital …
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