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Anti-Poverty Effectiveness of Taxes and Income Transfers in Welfare States

Kim, Hwanjoon - 2000

This study aims to compare the anti-poverty effectiveness of taxes and income transfers among western welfare states. It is shown that a country's poverty outcome can be decomposed into the level of market-generated poverty, the overall level of welfare efforts, and the poverty reduction...

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Do Welfare States Reduce Poverty? A Critical Shortcoming in the Standard Analysis of the Anti-Poverty Effect of Welfare States

Kim, Hwanjoon - 2000

A standard analysis of the anti-poverty effect of taxes and income transfers is to compare pre-tax-transfer poverty and … post-tax-transfer poverty. A critical shortcoming of the standard approach is that it treats pre-tax-transfer poverty as … given and ignores potential effects of taxes and transfers on pre-tax-transfer poverty. Using cross-national variation, this …

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International Evidence on the Impact of Transfers and Taxes on Alternative Poverty Indexes

DeFina, Robert H.; Thanawala, Kishor - 2002

Changes in the headcount rate are the standard metric for gauging how public transfers and taxes affect poverty. An alternative strategy, one theoretically more appealing and complete, is to rely on distribution-sensitive indexes [Sen (1976, 1981)]. How would policies measured impacts change if...

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