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Stiglitz, Joseph E. - 2016

The state has played a major role in the most important developmental successes. This paper discusses the advances in our understanding of the role of the state in the developmental process over the past thirty years, and the contribution to those advances played by changes in economics, changes...

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Macroeconomic policies, growth, employment, and inequality in Latin America

Damill, Mário; Frenkel, Roberto - 2012

This paper examines the macroeconomic policies and outcomes experienced by the Latin American economies during the period 1990-2010. Macroeconomic policies refer to exchange rates, monetary and aggregate fiscal policies, while macroeconomic outcomes, on the other hand, refer to the patterns of...

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Policy regimes, inequality, poverty and growth : the Chilean experience, 1973 - 2010

Contreras Guajardo, Dante; Ffrench-Davis, Ricardo - 2012

Since the 1970s, Chile has exhibited a highly skewed income distribution accompanied with strong fluctuations over time. Although income distribution worsened notably in the 1970s-80s, a significant improvement was recorded in the first half of the 1990s, resulting from better economic and...

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Economic Growth, Income Distribution, and Poverty in Poland During Transition

Paci, Pierella; Sasin, Martin J.; Verbeek, Jos - 2013

The authors attempt to analyze the linkages between macroeconomic policies and economic growth variables, their movement over time, and their impact on poverty in the case of Poland. Poland, a middle-income country, is of particular interest because its data sources allow for a relatively...

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Regional and subregional analyses of macroeconomic policy strategies for growth and equality in Southern Africa

Sahoo, Dukhabandhu; Mishra, Diptimayee; Sahoo, Auro Kumar; … - 2020

We investigate the relevance of beta (β, absolute and conditional) and sigma (σ) convergence in the economies of the Common Monetary Area of Southern Africa and in the provinces of the Republic of South Africa using panel data, allowing an understanding of growth and inequality in the region....

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Taxation, social protection, and governance decentralization

Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2016

. We show the potential existence of a poverty trap as a result of decentralization in taxation decisions. …

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Sequencing Fiscal Decentralization

Bahl, Roy; Martinez-Vazquez, Jorge - 2012

While there is extensive knowledge about how to design fiscal decentralization policies, considerably less is … understood about how a decentralization program should be sequenced and implemented. Countries embarking on decentralization … often struggle with decisions about the essential components of decentralization, including the order of an introduction of …

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A Dynamic Model of Fiscal Decentralization and Public Debt Accumulation

Guo, Si; Pei, Yun; Xie, Leiyu - 2022

quantitatively how fiscal decentralization affects local and central government debt accumulation and spending. In the model, the … local and central debts are inefficiently high. Consistent with empirical evidence, when fiscal decentralization widens …

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Inclusion amid ethnic inequality : insights from Brazil's social protection system

Sugiyama, Natasha Borges - 2022

Policy frames in Brazil have long run up against conflicting visions and understandings about the causes and consequences of group-based inequality. This paper argues that a class-based lens has dominated the social protection framework. In recent years, political leaders have framed social...

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Fiscal redistribution in Brazil : dynamic microsimulation, 2003–15

Neri, Marcelo Cortes; Siqueira, Rozane Bezerra de; … - 2018

This paper assesses causes and consequences of fiscal redistribution in Brazil. The framework proposed allows evaluating in an integrated manner the impacts of government-sponsored actions in inequality and mean income changes on social welfare, addressing both static and dynamic implications....

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