income levels and distribution. When institutions deteriorates and inequalities increase, the incumbent undertakes … Gini coefficient and to increase average income, growth, and income of the poor. However, some non-linearites are detected …

The paper uses the 1992 household survey for Bulgaria to show poor revenue performance of the income tax structure … prevailing in 1992, which did not take into account the underlying distribution of income. The paper shows that Bulgaria can … benefit from a much lower and simpler income tax rate structure, which will be superior on revenue and distributional grounds …

existing customer base. Higher prices for low- income consumers: Since deregulation begain in 1990, there has been a marked … increase in the use of prepayment meters, resulting in low-income customers paying more for their electricity. These findings …