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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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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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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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into a market-oriented economy. This paper offers a comprehensive study of inequality and mobility patterns for Russia … findings show rising income levels and decreasing inequality, with the latter being mostly caused by pro-poor growth rather …, leading to less long-term inequality than short-term inequality. The analysis also finds that switching from a part-time job …
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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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, decreasing the Gini inequality index by 21 percentage points, and the official measure of poverty incidence by 27.6 percentage …
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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 exploits a novel municipal-level data set to explore patterns of convergence in income and poverty in Mexico during 1992-2014. The paper finds that, despite a context of overall stagnant economic growth and poverty reduction, there is evidence of income and poverty convergence at the...
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inequality, with government expenditures in the form of in-kind transfers leading to the largest decreases. While expenditures in …
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