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poverty and inequality goals. The paper uses different assumptions about growth incidence curves to model changes in … to 2030 under different assumptions about growth and inequality. This allows for quantifying the interdependence of the … inequality and relies on the Model-based Recursive Partitioning machine-learning algorithm to model how growth in GDP is passed …
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This study assesses the redistributive effects of fiscal policy in Mali and Niger. Fiscal policy is poverty increasing … three deciles, respectively). Although existing direct fiscal transfers have poverty-reducing effects, they are too small …
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transfers. The findings show that the system is progressive and contributes to reductions in poverty and inequality. The Gini ….76 Gini points (around 16 percent). Something similar happens with the poverty rate, which decreases from 47.31 to 31 … (the child money program and the mortgage subsidy) do little redistribution-the latter is actually regressive-but represent …
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Fiscal policy is central to not only macroeconomic stability and growth, but also to poverty and inequality reduction … 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 …
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Egypt also led to a decrease in poverty, mostly from the flagship Tamween program. Poverty and inequality could be reduced … data for fiscal year 2015. Evidence shows that Egyptian fiscal policy reduces income inequality, and that among individual … countries, Egypt's overall fiscal policy placed it in the median of the distribution of inequality reduction. Fiscal policies in …
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sheds light on the relationship between poverty and agriculture as part of the process of structural transformation. It … regional level where the Common Agricultural Program funding tends to go, poverty-wise, within each country. This approach …
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, economic growth, and poverty alleviation. The study shows that there is no consensus among the existing studies, which are … mostly focused on industrialized economies, on the relationship between public investment and economic growth. Studies that … investigate the relationship between physical infrastructure and economic growth mostly conclude that there exists a positive …
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inequality, with government expenditures in the form of in-kind transfers leading to the largest decreases. While expenditures in …'s fiscal policies also lead to a reduction in poverty, mainly due to well-targeted direct transfers …
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transfers, indirect subsidies, and in-kind transfers) on the level of poverty and inequality in Uganda, using the …-kind transfers, are the biggest contributors to reducing inequality. Although equalizing, fiscal policy is poverty-inducing in Uganda … resources to increase the size and coverage of pro-poor direct transfers programs may alleviate poverty and reduce inequality …
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