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consumption poverty and non-monetary poverty outcomes over this period, showing improvements in almost all indicators over this …-monetary outcomes, remains an important concern. This increase in inequality is one reason why growth has not led to faster poverty …
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- better cushions the poverty effects of income shocks in a developing economy. We compare the effectiveness of the three … benefit schemes on poverty first conceptually and then by considering two different crisis scenarios, the COVID-19 pandemic … the proxy-means-tested benefits are the most effective in reducing the poverty gap index, a simple categorical benefit is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014336040
consumption poverty and non-monetary poverty outcomes over this period, showing improvements in almost all indicators over this …-monetary outcomes, remains an important concern. This increase in inequality is one reason why growth has not led to faster poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011418585
- better cushions the poverty effects of income shocks in a developing economy. We compare the effectiveness of the three … benefit schemes on poverty first conceptually and then by considering two different crisis scenarios, the COVID-19 pandemic … the proxy-means-tested benefits are the most effective in reducing the poverty gap index, a simple categorical benefit is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014477524
This paper examines the measurement of social welfare, poverty and inequality taking into account features that have … the differences between standard poverty and inequality measures based on observed income and measures that are calculated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319772
This paper examines the measurement of social welfare, poverty and inequality taking into account features that have … the differences between standard poverty and inequality measures based on observed income and measures that are calculated …. -- prospect theory ; poverty ; inequality ; welfare measurement ; vulnerability …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009691049
. Further, the reduction of poverty is typically the expressed goal of such countries, and this feature is also taken into … of private and public goods for the poverty minimization case, and compare the results to those derived under a general … to pay attention to when designing poverty alleviation policies. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011418605
. Further, the reduction of poverty is typically the expressed goal of such countries, and this feature is also taken into … of private and public goods for the poverty minimization case, and compare the results to those derived under a general … to pay attention to when designing poverty alleviation policies. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011280723
The COVID-19 pandemic increased public debt and changed the income distribution in many countries. We use a numerical simulation approach to derive optimal nonlinear marginal tax rates for the pre-crisis and crisis periods. We contribute to the literature by examining optimal tax rates...
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In this paper we study the effects of various tax schedule discontinuities on the behavior of small firms using high-quality and population-wide tax register data from South Africa. We use the bunching method to analyse how these discontinuities affect the firm-size distribution. We first...
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