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Corruption, income inequality, and poverty in the United States
Dincer, Oguzhan C.; Gunalp, Burak - 2008
In this study we analyze the effects of corruption on income inequality and poverty. Our analysis advances the existing … data. We find robust evidence that an increase in corruption increases income inequality and poverty. -- Corruption … literature in four ways. First, instead of using corruption indices assembled by various investment risk services, we use an …
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Early childhood development : wealth, the nurturing environment and inequality first results from the PRIDI database
Verdisco, Aimée E.; Cueto, Santiago; Thompson, Jennelle - 2016
This paper presents findings from the Regional Project on Child Development Indicators, PRIDI for its acronym in Spanish. PRIDI created a new tool, the Engle Scale, for evaluating development in children aged 24 to 59 months in four domains: cognition, language and communication, socio-emotional...
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The distributional and employment impacts of nationwide minimum wage changes
Cribb, Jonathan; Giupponi, Giulia; Joyce, Robert; … - 2021
We estimate the effect of the introduction of the UK’s National Living Wage in 2016, and increases in it up to 2019, using a new empirical method. We apply a bunching approach to a setting with no geographical variation in minimum wage rates. We effectively compare employment changes in each...
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Fiscal policy, income redistribution, and poverty reduction in Latin America
Lustig, Nora; Martinez Pabon, Valentina; Pessino, Carola - 2023
This paper uses standard fiscal incidence analysis to study how much income redistribution and poverty reduction are … heterogeneity in the income inequality and poverty-reducing power of LAC fiscal systems. While all LAC fiscal systems reduce income … inequality, fiscal systems in nine LAC countries are poverty-increasing, and this startling characteristic has not improved over …
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Do corporate tax cuts boost economic growth?
Gechert, Sebastian; Heimberger, Philipp - 2021
The empirical literature on the impact of corporate taxes on economic growth reaches ambiguous conclusions: corporate tax cuts increase, reduce, or do not significantly affect growth. We apply metaregression methods to a novel dataset with 441 estimates from 42 primary studies. There is evidence...
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The economic growth and income distribution implications of public spending and tax decisions
Darvas, Zsolt M. - 2020
The level and composition of public expenditures and revenues both have implications for economic development, as shown by the 'fiscal multiplier' and the 'quality of public finance' literature. Public finance decisions also influence the distribution of income. Based on a review of the...
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Privatisation methods and economic growth in transition economies
Bennett, John; Estrin, Saul; Maw, James W.; Urga, Giovanni - 2004
We investigate the impact of differences in privatisation method on national economic performance in transition economies. Our approach is to estimate, using dynamic panel data methods, a growth equation over 23 countries for the period 1990-2001. Among our results, we find that mass...
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Attaining SDG 8 in Azerbaijan : the challenges of economic transformation and job creation
Valiyev, Anar - 2020
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Shooting a moving target : choosing targeting tools for social programs
Beuermann, Diether W.; Hoffmann, Bridget; Stampini, Marco; … - 2024
A key challenge for policymakers is how to design methods to select beneficiaries of social programs when income is volatile and the target population is dynamic. We evaluate a traditional static proxy-means test (PMT) and three policy-relevant alternatives. We use a unique panel dataset of a...
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