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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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poverty and inequality goals. The paper uses different assumptions about growth incidence curves to model changes in … the forecasts, suggesting an important role for inequality on the path to eliminating extreme poverty …The goals of ending extreme poverty by 2030 and working toward a more equal distribution of income are prominent in …
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sheds light on the relationship between poverty and agriculture as part of the process of structural transformation. It … regional level where the Common Agricultural Program funding tends to go, poverty-wise, within each country. This approach …
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inequality, with government expenditures in the form of in-kind transfers leading to the largest decreases. While expenditures in …'s fiscal policies also lead to a reduction in poverty, mainly due to well-targeted direct transfers …
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and poverty. This is the 22nd annual report published by IFS authors on living standards, poverty and inequality in the UK … different groups in the UK, and the consequences that these changes have for income inequality and for measures of deprivation … poverty and material deprivation to examine the situation facing poor families with children prior to the pandemic. …
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We explore the relationship between political and economic inequality in the UK. …
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change are also reflected in very different patterns of inequality across (and within) minority groups, generations, and … are persistently disadvantaged, faced with elevated levels of poverty and unemployment. Alongside different levels in …
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This chapter investigates the relationship between immigration and inequality in the UK over the past 40 years. This is … the impact immigration had on wage inequality in the UK through two channels: the first is the effect on the earnings … very small. We decompose wage inequality into inequality within the immigrant and native groups and inequality between the …
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There are marked differences in life expectancy between the regions of England, between the countries in the UK, and between the UK and other wealthy countries. Within England, prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, life expectancy at birth was more than two years higher in London and the South East...
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