This paper aims to advance understanding about the relationship between taxation and inequality in developing countries … taxes promoted the progressivity of the tax system and contributed to the reduction of inequality. Yet, the effectiveness of …

This paper evaluates the impact of education on measured inequality across the wage distribution using pooled records … from the 2005 and 2010 Cameroon labour force surveys, wage equations and standard inequality measures. Returns to education … returns to education for the period 2005-10 largest for the 5th and 10th percentiles. Inequality decreased from the lower to …

The paper analyses the changes in tax policy, tax/GDP ratios, tax incidence and income inequality which have taken … income improved on average by 0.4-0.8 points, and that, as a result, redistribution via taxation improved (especially in the …

overall change in income inequality or poverty. It concludes that UGAMOD is a useful tool for tax policy makers to evaluate …

inequality translates into greater redistribution by shaping the median voter's preferences. While numerous papers have tested … redistribution should increase in line with inequality. An empirical test based on 110 observations from the Luxembourg Income Study … this proposition, the literature has remained divided over the appropriate measure for redistribution. Revisiting the …

In this paper, we estimate the recent evolution of global interpersonal inequality and examine the effect of omitted … top incomes on the level and direction of global inequality. We propose a methodology to estimate the truncation point of … individuals in household surveys generate a downward bias in global inequality estimates that ranges between 15 per cent and 42 …

This study uses five series of demographic and health surveys to answer the question: 'Is horizontal inequality in … education and wealth increasing or decreasing in the 20-year interval between 1991 and 2010?'. Horizontal inequality in … education attainment has been moving in waves; however, there was an invested U-shaped trend where inequality increased between …

Using comparable fiscal incidence analysis, this paper examines the impact of fiscal policy on inequality and poverty … in 25 countries for around 2010. Success in fiscal redistribution is driven primarily by redistributive effort (share of … targeted at the rich. While fiscal policy always reduces inequality, this is not the case with poverty. Fiscal policy increases …