negative distributional impacts of VAT most effectively, while public investment leads to little redistribution …

discussion of fiscal redistribution within the standard social welfareframework, which lends itself to a transparent and … practical evaluation of the extent anddeterminants of fiscal redistribution. Differences in fiscal redistribution are decomposed …) and in the socialwelfare returns to targeting due to varying initial levels of income inequality (targetingreturns). This …

poverty and inequality in India during the pandemic. We have three main findings. First, India has made significant progress … have temporarily increased poverty and inequality. Second, education and employment status seem to be the main factors …

This paper provides new evidence of the effect of monetary policy shocks on income inequality. Using a measure of … finds that contractionary (expansionary) monetary actions increase (reduce) income inequality. The effect, however, varies … business cycle, and across countries depending on the share of labor income and redistribution policies. In particular, we find …

growth. Our findings also suggest that inequality is not affected by the growth-friendly fiscal reforms analyzed in this …

Inclusive growth, narrowly defined in this paper as growth that helps reduce inequality, is achieved if consumption of …-percentile consumption diagnostics that could inform redistribution policies. The proposed framework is illustrated in application to Iraq …