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Assessing the effects of fiscal policies on poverty and inequality : the case of Uruguay
Bucheli, Marisa; Ibarra, Gabriel Lara; Tuzman, Diego - 2020
income tax is found to be largely progressive, with the top quintile paying more than four-fifths of this tax. Uruguay …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012434634
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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
Turkey's achievements against peer countries. The results show that fiscal policy significantly reduces income inequality in … countervail the inequality-increasing impact of indirect taxes. At the bottom of the income distribution, targeted transfers are … insufficient to compensate for the effect of taxes, resulting in net increases in poverty. In the context of upper-middle-income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012257124
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Expansionary fiscal austerity : new international evidence
Nie, Owen - 2020
The expansionary fiscal contraction (EFC) hypothesis states that fiscal austerity can increase output or consumption when a country is under heavy debt burdens because it sends positive signal about the country's solvency situation and long-term economic wellbeing. Empirical tests of this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012297616
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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
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Fiscal policy and economic activity in South Asia
Beyer, Robert; Milivojevic, Lazar - 2019
This paper analyzes whether fiscal policy in South Asia amplifies or smooths business cycle fluctuations. The paper estimates several econometric models to explore the cyclicality of government spending and tax buoyancy. The findings show that fiscal policy is procyclical in most countries. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012008294
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Are budget rigidities a source of fiscal distress and a constraint for fiscal consolidation?
Muñoz S., Ercio; Olaberria, Eduardo - 2019
This paper studies whether budget rigidities affect the probability of countries getting into fiscal distress and reduce the likelihood of governments performing fiscal adjustments. Budget rigidities are constraints that limit the ability of the government to change the size and structure of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012113828
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Fiscal rules for the Western Balkans
Kikoni, Edith; Madžarević-Šujster, Sanja; Irwin, … - 2019
Policy toward fiscal rules is an important issue in the countries of the Western Balkans (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, and Serbia). According to a rough estimate, the countries with rules (all but North Macedonia) have complied with their debt and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012114089
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How important is selection? : Experimental versus non-experimental measures of the income gains from migration
McKenzie, David J.; Gibson, John K.; Stillman, Steven - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003351517
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A curse of comparison? : evidence on reference groups for relative income concerns
Kuegler, Alice - 2009
"This paper proposes that individuals care about the relative income of proximate reference groups. Making use of self …-reported life satisfaction as a proxy for unobservable utility, the relative income of siblings is tested for relevance as a … reference point for new sample data from Venezuela. Having greater perceived income than one's siblings is found to be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003820939