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Fiscal policy, inequality, and the poor in the developing world
Lustig, Nora - 2016
Using comparable fiscal incidence analysis, this paper examines the impact of fiscal policy on inequality and poverty … targeted at the rich. While fiscal policy always reduces inequality, this is not the case with poverty. Fiscal policy increases … poverty in 4 countries using a US$1.25/day PPP poverty line, in 8 countries using a US$2.50/day line, and in 15 countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011580618
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Inequality in Mexico : labour markets and fiscal redistribution 1989-2014
Campos Vázquez, Raymundo M.; Lustig, Nora; Scott, John - 2018
Income inequality in Mexico increased between 1989 and 1994; between 1994 and 2006, inequality declined; and, between 2006 and 2014, inequality was again on the rise. We apply decomposition techniques to analyse the proximate determinants of labour income inequality and fiscal incidence analysis to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011966562