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tax-benefit system: the size and distribution of taxes collected and benefits paid, and the impact of the system on …The purpose of this paper is to introduce applications of RUSMOD - a microsimulation model for fiscal incidence … different population groups. Microsimulation models, such as RUSMOD, are habitually used in developed countries, and can be …
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coefficient of the pre-tax-and-transfer income is 0.4183 and decreases to 0.3507 after-tax-and-transfer. This is a reduction of 6 … (the child money program and the mortgage subsidy) do little redistribution-the latter is actually regressive-but represent … highly dependent on volatile commodity prices-make the redistributive impact of the tax-and-transfer system susceptible to …
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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...
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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...
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This paper evaluates the impact of the Emergency Social Safety Net (ESSN) in Turkey, the largest cash transfer program for international refugees in the world. The paper provides prima facie evidence that the program quickly caused substantial changes in household size and composition, with a...
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This paper investigates the link between inequality and demand for redistribution by looking at how individuals form … their perceptions of inequality. Most of the literature analyzing demand for redistribution has focused on objective … inequality, rather than subjective perceptions of inequality. However, a model that links demand for redistribution to subjective …
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Ethiopia's framework for managing its monetary and foreign exchange policy has relied on some standard instruments of … reform scenario of Ethiopia's monetary and foreign exchange system …
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