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Lessons from World Bank Research on Financial Crises
World Bank - 2012
that foster deep and persistent poverty, such as lack of connectivity to markets, have provided a degree of protection for …
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How Pro-poor and Progressive is Social Spending in Zambia?
Cuesta, Jose; Kabaso, Pamela; Suarez-Becerra, Pablo - 2012
This paper analyzes the distributional effect of public spending in Zambia using the most recent data from the 2010 Living Conditions Monitoring Survey. The analysis focuses on both the "traditional" social sectors, such as education and public healthcare, as well as other spending areas less...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012552156
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Latin America and the Social Contract : Patterns of Social Spending and Taxation
Breceda, Karla; Rigolini, Jamele; Saavedra, Jaime - 2012
This paper presents an incidence analysis of both social spending and taxation for seven Latin American countries, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The analysis shows that Latin American countries are headed de facto toward a minimalist welfare state similar to the one in the United...
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Aid, Service Delivery, and the Millennium Development Goals in an Economy-wide Framework
Bourguignon, Francois; Diaz-Bonilla, Carolina; Lofgren, Hans - 2012
In many developing countries, achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015 will require significant increases in expenditures on social services and in foreign assistance. It will also require careful planning of the sector allocation and sequencing of public spending. Especially...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012552478
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Fiscal Policy in Colombia : Tapping Its Potential for a More Equitable Society
Moller, Lars Christian - 2012
Colombia has the seventh highest Gini coefficient of income inequality in the world. The Santos Administration is aware of this challenge and is taking important measures to reduce disparities. The government is also aspiring to join the OECD, which exhibits much lower income disparities, mainly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012554523
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Social Spending, Distribution, and Equality of Opportunities : Opportunity Incidence Analysis
Cuesta, Jose - 2013
Existing evidence forms a body of "conventional wisdom" on the redistributive impact of fiscal policies that has been recently questioned by more disaggregated analyses. This paper proposes an additional extension to the traditional benefit incidence analysis to explore further the extent to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012560094
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Social Spending, Taxes and Income Redistribution in Uruguay
Bucheli, Marisa; Lustig, Nora; Rossi, Maximo - 2013
inequality and poverty when all taxes and transfers are combined. In comparison with five other countries in Latin America, it … ranks first (poverty reduction) and second (inequality reduction), and first in terms of poverty reduction effectiveness and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012558115
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The Distributional Impact of Serbia's Taxes and Social Spending
Nguyen, Trang V..; Ranđelović, Saša; … - 2022
of fiscal policy on inequality and poverty is key to inform policy choices. This paper's key research question is to … analyze the redistributive effect of fiscal policy on income distribution and poverty in Serbia. It advances on the previous … poverty in Serbia, using the Commitment to Equity Assessment approach. The findings suggest that Serbia's fiscal system is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013545483
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Timing and Duration of Exposure in Evaluations of Social Programs
King, Elizabeth M.; Behrman, Jere R. - 2012
Impact evaluations aim to measure the outcomes that can be attributed to a specific policy or intervention. Although there have been excellent reviews of the different methods that an evaluator can choose in order to estimate impact, there has not been sufficient attention given to questions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012552475
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An Essay on Economic Reforms and Social Change in China
Lindbeck, Assar - 2012
, mainly in terms of poverty reduction, and regresses for large population groups in terms of income security and human …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012553891