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Making income and property taxes more growth-friendly and redistributive in India
Joumard, Isabelle; Thomas, Alastair; Morgavi, Hermes - 2017
Tax reforms are crucial to promoting inclusive growth in India. The replacement of a myriad of consumption taxes by a … Goods and Services Tax (GST) will boost India's competitiveness, investment, job creation and tax compliance. The potential … productivity by reducing distortions in the allocation of resources which emanate from the corporate income tax; iv) boost job …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011700368
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Macroeconomic uncertainties, prudent debt targets and fiscal rules
Fall, Falilou; Fournier, Jean-Marc - 2015
The sharp rise in debt experienced by most OECD countries raises questions about the prudent debt level countries should target. It also raises questions about the fiscal frameworks needed to reach them and to accommodate cyclical fluctuations along the path towards a prudent debt target. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011399529
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COVID-19 and food security in Ethiopia : do social protection programs protect?
Abay, Kibrom A.; Berhane, Guush; Hoddinott, John; … - 2020
This paper assesses the impact of Ethiopia's flagship social protection program, the Productive Safety Net Program on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012434328
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Beneficiary views on cash and in-kind payments : evidence from Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Programme
Hirvonen, Kalle; Hoddinott, John - 2020
the same way? This paper addresses this issue using longitudinal household data from Ethiopia where a large-scale social …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012228434
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For public service or money : understanding geographical imbalances in the health workforce
Serneels, Pieter; Lindelöw, Magnus; García Montalvo, José - 2005
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003134186
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The distributive impact of taxes and expenditures in Colombia
Núñez Méndez, Jairo; Olivieri, Sergio; Parra, Julieth; … - 2020
Colombia has reduced extreme poverty in the past 16 years by almost half, moderate poverty by 22 percentage points, and made more than four million Colombians jump the threshold of multidimensional poverty. However, it remains one of the most unequal countries in the region, after Brazil and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012230740
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What are the poverty and inequality impacts of fiscal policy in Turkey?
Cuevas, P. Facundo; Lucchetti, Leonardo; Nebiler, Metin - 2020
Fiscal policy is central to not only macroeconomic stability and growth, but also to poverty and inequality reduction. This paper provides the most comprehensive assessment of the distributional incidence of Turkey's fiscal policy to date. It analyzes the combined and individual incidence of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012257124
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Fiscal incidence in Moldova : a commitment to equity analysis
Cojocaru, Alexandru; Matycin, Michail Ja.; Prohnitchi, … - 2019
first detailed distributional analysis of the tax and expenditure sides of the fiscal system, examining in particular the … different taxes and transfers in achieving these poverty and inequality reduction goals. The analysis finds that the tax …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012114418
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Impact of fiscal policy on inequality and poverty in the Arab Republic of Egypt
Ibarra, Gabriel Lara; Sinha, Nistha; Fayez, Rana; … - 2019
This study assesses the redistributive impact of fiscal policy -- including expenditures and taxation -- in the Arab Republic of Egypt. Using a broadly applied methodology, a fiscal incidence analysis is conducted using survey and government data for fiscal year 2015. Evidence shows that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012022288
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The redistributive effects of fiscal policy in Mali and Niger
Hounsa, Thierry; Coulibaly, Mohamed; Sanoh, Aly - 2019
This study assesses the redistributive effects of fiscal policy in Mali and Niger. Fiscal policy is poverty increasing in Mali (by 2.4 percentage points) and Niger (2.5 percentage points). This is a result of primarily two factors: indirect taxes (value-added taxes and import duties) and direct...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012051946