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The Quest for the Holy Grail : Efficient and Equitable Fiscal Consolidation in India

Abdallah, Chadi - 2015

Achieving fiscal consolidation without undermining growth and poverty-reduction efforts is a key policy challenge in many countries. Using India as an illustration, this paper shows how a mix of well-designed taxation and spending policies can help address these challenges. On the tax side, the...

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The Fiscal and Welfare Impacts of Reforming Fuel Subsidies in India

Anand, Rahul - 2013

Rising fuel subsidies have contributed to fiscal pressures in India. A key policy concern regarding subsidy reform is the adverse welfare impact on households, in particular poor households. This paper evaluates the fiscal and welfare implications of fuel subsidy reform in India. Fuel subsidies...

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Attaining Selected Sustainable Development Goals in Guatemala : Spending, Provision, and Financing Needs

Perez Ruiz, Esther - 2019

Raising living standards continues to be the main challenge facing Guatemala, as a matter of economic success and social cohesion. This paper discusses the spending, financing, and delivery capacity aspects of a viable development strategy for Guatemala couched within the United Nations...

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Doing More with Less : How Can Brazil Foster Development While Pursuing Fiscal Consolidation?

Flamini, Valentina - 2019

Following a benchmarking exercise, we estimate the spending required to reach satisfactory progress in the Sustainable Development Goals in the health, education, and infrastructure sectors in Brazil. We find that there is room for savings in education (up to 1.5 percentage point of GDP) and...

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A Time to Build : Does Ta Matter for Revenue Mobilization?

Chami, Ralph; Darkey, Elorm; Williams, Oral H. - 2021

We use a unique data set for 115 countries, from 2000-18, and 5-year non-overlapping averages to explore the impact of technical assitance on revenue mobilization. To the authors' knowledge this is the first such effort to determine a direct relationship between technical assistance and the...

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Toward a Comprehensive Tax Reform for Italy

Cammeraat, Emile - 2020

This paper evaluates elements of a comprehensive reform of the Italian tax system. Reform options are guided by the principles of reducing complexity, broadening the tax base, and lowering marginal tax rates, especially the tax burden on labor income. The revenue and distributional implications...

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Mortality and Lifetime Income : Evidence from U.S. Social Security Records

Duggan, James - 2008

Studies of the empirical relationship between income and mortality often rely on data aggregated by geographic areas and broad population groups and do not distinguish disabled and nondisabled persons. We investigate the relationship between individual mortality and lifetime income with a large...

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The Magnitude and Distribution of Fuel Subsidies : Evidence from Bolivia, Ghana, Jordan, Mali, and Sri Lanka

Coady, David P. - 2006

With the recent jump in world oil prices, the issue of petroleum product pricing has become increasingly important in developing countries. Reflecting a reluctance of many governments to pass these price increases onto energy users, energy price subsidies are absorbing an increasing share of...

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How Do Fiscal and Labor Policies in France Affect Inequality?

Espinoza, Raphael A. - 2016

This paper explores the impact of fiscal and labor market policies on efficiency, inequality, and fiscal outcomes in … inequality, the main exception being capital income tax cuts. A reduction of the minimum wage has an ambiguous impact on the … could improve overall efficiency, inequality, and fiscal outcomes, for instance if targeted labor tax reductions are offset …

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The Extent and Composition of Automatic Stabilization in EU Countries

Coady, Dave; Poli, Silvia De; Hernández, Adrián; … - 2023

This paper analyses the magnitude of automatic income and demand stabilization in EU Member States between 2011 to 2019. Our analysis finds that automatic income stabilization in 2019 averaged 41.3 percent at the EU level, with considerable variation among Member States. While the extent of...

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