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The recent public economics literature involves an apparent consensus that income effects reduce the costs of raising revenues and hence increase the desirable level of public good provision. Higher taxes can indeed reduce the demand for leisure -- and hence increase the supply of taxed labor --...
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.3 million people (nearly 1 percent of the world's poor) into poverty …
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countries to assess the impacts of changes in global food prices on poverty in individual countries and for the world as a whole …. The analysis finds that food price increases unrelated to productivity changes in developing countries raise poverty in … output. As a result, higher food prices appear to lower global poverty in the long run …
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raise the world poverty headcount by an average of 24 million. The adverse poverty impact of the duty is larger when the …
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to estimate the combined impact of such insulating behavior on poverty in various developing countries and globally. The … analysis finds that the actual poverty-reducing impact of insulation is much less than its apparent impact, and that its net … effect was to increase global poverty in 2008 by 8 million people, although this increase was not significantly different …
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reduce some forms of poverty and inequality but worsen others, so the net effects are unclear without empirical modeling … the remaining distortions to world merchandise trade on poverty and inequality globally and in various developing … sample of 15 countries, and nine stand-alone national case studies, all point to larger reductions in poverty, especially if …
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