Taxes and cash transfers reduce income inequality more in France than elsewhere in the OECD, because of the large size of the flows involved. But the system is complex overall. Its effectiveness could be enhanced in many ways, for example so as to achieve the same amount of redistribution at...

1. Taxation and gender equality : a conceptual framework / Caren Grown -- 2. Methodology and comparative analysis / Caren Grown and Hitomi Komatsu -- 3. Gender equality and taxation in Argentina / Corina Rodriguez Enriquez, Natalia Gherardi and Dario Rossignolo -- 4. Gender equality and taxation...

Presents results from original research on the gender equity dimension of taxation from eight country studies. This book demonstrates fresh methodologies in evaluating the gender impacts of taxation, and makes recommendations for tax policies and reform in developing and developed countries