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Distributional Consequences of Fiscal Consolidation and the Role of Fiscal Policy; What Do the Data Say?
Woo, Jaejoon; Bova, Elva; Kinda, Tidiane; Zhang, … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2013
fiscal consolidations are likely to raise inequality through various channels including their effects on unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011242413
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Financial Deepening, Property Rights and Poverty; Evidence From Sub-Saharan Africa
Huang, Yifei; Singh, Raju Jan - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2011
Recent studies on the relationship between financial development and poverty have been inconclusive. Some claim that, by allowing more entrepreneurs to obtain financing, financial development improves the allocation of capital, which has a particularly large impact on the poor. Others argue that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009293779
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Inclusive Growth and Inequality in Senegal
Kireyev, Alexei - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2013
The paper examines Senegal’s growth performance from the perspective of its povertyreducing and distributional characteristics, and discusses policies that might help make growth more inclusive. The main findings are that poverty has fallen in the last two decades, but poverty reduction has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010790286
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Inequalities and Growth in the Southern African Customs Union (SACU) Region
Basdevant, Olivier; Benicio, Dalmacio; Yakhshilikov, Yorbol - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2012
This paper applies the work of Berg and Ostry (2011) to the SACU region, to identify how inequalities have played a role in growth in each of these countries, and elaborates policy options to mitigate the effects of inequalities and foster growth. Lower income inequalities could lead to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010790343
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Equity and Fiscal Policy; The Income Distribution Effects of Taxation and Social Spending in Central America
Cubero, Rodrigo; Hollar, Ivanna Vladkova - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2010
How does fiscal policy fare in improving the underlying income distribution in Central America? We integrate the data from a number of existing tax and public expenditure studies for the countries in the region and find that the distributional effect of taxation is regressive but small. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008533235
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When is Growth Pro-Poor? Cross-Country Evidence
Kraay, Aart - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2004
Growth is pro-poor if the poverty measure of interest falls. This implies three potential sources of pro-poor growth: (a) a high rate of growth of average incomes; (b) a high sensitivity of poverty to growth in average incomes; and (c) a poverty-reducing pattern of growth in relative incomes. I...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005605055
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Income Inequality and Redistributive Government Spending
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2003
The paper examines empirically the question of whether more unequal societies spend more on income redistribution than their more egalitarian counterparts. Theoretical arguments on this issue are inconclusive. The political economy literature suggests that redistributive spending is higher in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005248211
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Crises, labor market policy, and unemployment
Bernal Verdugo, Lorenzo Ernesto; Furceri, Davide; … - 2012
impact on unemployment in the short term, but that this effect rapidly disappears in the medium term in countries with … with more rigid labor market institutions. These effects are even larger for youth unemployment in the short term and long …-term unemployment in the medium term. Conversely, large upfront, or gradual but significant, comprehensive labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009572447
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The Inflation-Unemployment Trade-off at Low Inflation
Ricci, Luca Antonio - 2009
relates average unemployment to average wage inflation; the curve is virtually vertical for high inflation rates but becomes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012677671
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Shocking Aspects of Canadian Labor Markets.
Swiston, Andrew - 2006
Intro -- Contents -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. DATA AND METHODOLOGY -- III. INTERNATIONAL COMPARISONS -- IV. RESULTS ACROSS CANADIAN PROVINCES -- V. EXTENDING THE CANADIAN MODEL -- VI. CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- Data Appendix.
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