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Shifting sweetness: Impacts of South Africa's Health Promotion Levy on sugar-sweetened beverages

Cejka, Tim; Piek, Marlies; Waseem, Mazhar - 2025

Sin taxes are increasingly being used to discourage the consumption of goods perceived to harm individuals and society. This paper examines the impact of South Africa's Health Promotion Levy (HPL)-the first sugar tax implemented in Africa-on the consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) in...

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Promoting education under distortionary taxation: Equality of opportunity versus welfarism

Haaparanta, Pertti; Kanbur, Ravi; Paukkeri, Tuuli; … - 2019

How does the public provision of education and the deployment of distortionary tax and subsidy instruments differ when the government's objective is conventional welfarist compared to when the objective is the non-welfarist one of equality of opportunity? This paper develops a framework in which...

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Distributional impacts of agricultural policies in Zambia: A microsimulation approach

Gasior, Katrin; Navarro, Silvia; Pirttilä, Jukka; … - 2022

highlight that the final impacts on poverty and inequality are heterogeneous across population groups. …

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Microsimulation of tax-benefit systems in the Global South: A comparative assessment

Lastunen, Jesse; de Mahieu, Antoine; Gasior, Katrin; … - 2024

This paper analyses the effectiveness of tax-benefit systems in reducing poverty and inequality across 13 countries in … to poverty and inequality. Additionally, we assess gender disparities in outcomes, quantify the distributional effects of …

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The consequences of the value-added tax on inequality

Alavuotunki, Kaisa; Pirttilä, Jukka - 2015

revenue, others claim that it is also a regressive tax, contributing to increased inequality within the developing world … first estimates on its consequences on inequality at the macro level. The results from instrumental variable estimations … has not led to increased inequality, suggesting that the move to the VAT has not undermined equitable development. …

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Revisiting the impact of direct taxes and transfers on poverty and inequality in South Africa

Maboshe, Mashekwa; Woolard, Ingrid D. - 2018

, that direct taxes and cash transfers are overall progressive and reduce inequality and poverty. Our disaggregated analyses …

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Learning from the "best": The impact of tax-benefit systems in Africa

Bargain, Olivier; Jara, H. Xavier; Kwenda-Magejo, Prudence - 2019

learn from each other to improve social protection and reduce inequality. …

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Shifting from deductions to credits: Unpacking the distributional effects of medical expenditure considerations in South Africa

Nhamo, Senia; Mudimu, Edinah - 2020

system. However, the additional medical tax expenses appear to be distortionary, introducing great inequality across income …

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Redistribution, inequality and political participation: Evidence from Mexico during the 2008 financial crisis

Justino, Patricia; Martorano, Bruno - 2016

This paper explores the relationship between a large government cash transfer programme, changes in inequality, and …

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Energy subsidies, international aid, and the politics of reform

McCulloch, Neil - 2017

Energy subsidy reform is critical to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals and tackling climate change. This paper sets out the evidence on the scale of subsidies and their impact. It then reviews the actions of donors in encouraging and supporting energy subsidy reforms. I find that,...

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