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Addressing the poverty and distributional impacts of carbon pricing reforms is critical for the success of ambitious … which carbon pricing can potentially affect poverty and inequality. It finds that the channels differ in important ways …
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poverty and inequality in India during the pandemic. We have three main findings. First, India has made significant progress … in reducing poverty in recent decades, but the economic downturn associated with the COVID-19 pandemic is estimated to … have temporarily increased poverty and inequality. Second, education and employment status seem to be the main factors …
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We quantitatively investigate the macroeconomic and distributional impacts of fiscal consolidations in low-income countries (LICs) through value added tax (VAT), personal income tax (PIT), and corporate income tax (CIT). We extend the standard heterogeneous agents incomplete markets model by...
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The COVID-19 pandemic risks exacerbating inequality in Asia. High frequency labor surveys show that the pandemic is having particularly adverse effects on younger workers, women and people that are more vulnerable. Pandemics have been shown to increase inequalities. As a result, income...
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remittances to LAC, as well as their costs and benefits. For the home country, the negative impact from emigration on labor … resources and productivity seems to outweigh growth gains from remittances, notably for the Caribbean. However, given emigration … consumption smoothing, support financial sector stability and fiscal revenues, and help reduce poverty and inequality, without …
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how changes in aggregate demand due to additional income from household's remittances propagates through the network of … linkages on sectoral and total output following an increase in remittances inflows. Our empirical results suggest that the … effects of remittances on recipient economies increase with the degree of linkages across sectors, which is especially …
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undermine the effect of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), official development assistance (ODA) and migrants’ remittances on … economic expansion. Based on neoclassical growth framework, the theoretical model indicates that FDI, ODA, and remittances …
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This paper reviews and discusses issues involved in assessing the relationship between capital account liberalization and economic performance. First, it discusses the different measures of restrictions used in the literature. Second, it reviews the literature on the relationship between growth...
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