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Fiscal policy is central to not only macroeconomic stability and growth, but also to poverty and inequality reduction … Turkey's achievements against peer countries. The results show that fiscal policy significantly reduces income inequality in … countervail the inequality-increasing impact of indirect taxes. At the bottom of the income distribution, targeted transfers are …
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poverty and inequality goals. The paper uses different assumptions about growth incidence curves to model changes in … the forecasts, suggesting an important role for inequality on the path to eliminating extreme poverty …The goals of ending extreme poverty by 2030 and working toward a more equal distribution of income are prominent in …
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sheds light on the relationship between poverty and agriculture as part of the process of structural transformation. It … regional level where the Common Agricultural Program funding tends to go, poverty-wise, within each country. This approach …
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inequality, with government expenditures in the form of in-kind transfers leading to the largest decreases. While expenditures in …'s fiscal policies also lead to a reduction in poverty, mainly due to well-targeted direct transfers …
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Rapid economic growth over the past two decades lifted millions of people out of poverty in Central Asia. But the … districts. Islands of poverty and prosperity are thus lost in the averages-leading to targeting inaccuracies that can slow the … pace of poverty reduction. This study partially addresses the challenge. The accuracy of key welfare indicators is …
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Poverty maps are a useful tool for the targeting of social programs on areas with high concentrations of poverty …. However, a static focus on poverty ignores the temporal dimension of poverty. Thus, current nonpoor households still face … substantial welfare volatility and are at risk of becoming poor in the face of shocks. We combine the methods of poverty mapping …
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The quest for status is a powerful motivator, but does it affect inequality? This paper presents a novel lab experiment … that was designed and conducted to identify the relationship between inequality, status signaling, debt, and conspicuous … finance exacerbates inequality. The results point to a vicious cycle of inequality and costly borrowing …
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that foster deep and persistent poverty, such as lack of connectivity to markets, have provided a degree of protection for …
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