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Quantifying the impacts of expanding social protection on efficiency and equity : evidence from a behavioural microsimulation model for Ghana
Osei, Robert Darko; Pirttilä, Jukka; Rattenhuber, Pia - 2017
protection. Results from a new tax-benefit microsimulation model for Ghana are combined with the extensive margin elasticity of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011776419
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Effects of an education reform on household poverty and inequality : a microsimulation analysis on the free Senior High School policy in Ghana
Adu-Ababio, Kwabena; Osei, Robert Darko - 2018
accessible to all. In Ghana - although basic education is largely free - for secondary education this was not the case until … effect of the reform on household poverty and inequality. Analysis is based on the Ghana Microsimulation Model which has the … Ghana Living Standards Survey - Round 6 as its base input data. Results provide policy makers with some good ex …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011938204
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Delivering good aid in hard places : the Yemen Social Fund for Development approach
Al-Iryani, Lamis; De Janvry, Alain; Sadoulet, Elisabeth - 2013
The Yemen Social Fund for Development (SFD) was established in 1997 with the support of the international community, and in particular the World Bank, to combat national poverty and reinforce the limited existing social safety net. Since its inception, SFD has been widely viewed as successful in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009788420
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How clientelism undermines state capacity : evidence from Mexican municipalities
De La O, Ana L. - 2021
Does clientelism perpetuate the weak state capacity that characterizes many young democracies? Prior work explains that clientelist parties skew public spending to private goods and under-supply public goods. Building on these insights, this article argues that clientelism creates a bureaucratic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012666901
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Duterte's pandemic populism : strongman leadership, weak state capacity, and the politics of deployment in the Philippines
Teehankee, Julio C. - 2022
The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic undermined the populist legacy of Philippine president Rodrigo R. Duterte. Despite implementing one of the longest and strictest lockdowns globally, the country has struggled with controlling the pandemic. While Duterte looks to have triumphed in his attack...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013259925
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Support policies for renewables : instrument choice and instrument change from a public choice perspective
Gawel, Erik; Strunz, Sebastian; Lehmann, Paul - 2016
This paper frames the transition towards clean energies as a sequential process of instrument choice and instrument change. First, regulators decide how to initiate the transition away from fossil energies. Here, support policies for renewable electricity are politically convenient because they...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011440947
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How do small firms respond to tax schedule discontinuities? : evidence from South African tax registers
Boonzaaier, Wian; Harju, Jarkko; Matikka, Tuomas; … - 2016
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011452927
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Combatting debt bias in South African firms : the case for an allowance for corporate equity
Kari, Seppo; Khoza, Londiwe; Manjezi, Nangamso; McNabb, Kyle - 2019
The problem of debt bias can be tackled through either disincentivizing the use of debt financing or incentivizing the use of equity financing. Considering the South African context - in which many firms are highly leveraged and the marginal effective tax rates for using debt financing are...
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Big and "unprofitable" : how 10% of multinational firms do 98% of profit shifting
Wier, Ludvig; Reynolds, Hayley - 2018
Globally, the largest 0.001 per cent of firms earn roughly one-third of all corporate profits. Nonetheless, there is little understanding of how profit shifting differs across firm size. Using South African corporate tax returns from 2010-14, we investigate the link between firm size and profit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011983967
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Microsimulation analysis of the impact of indirect tax benefits on income distribution and poverty alleviation in Tanzania : an application of TAZMOD
Maskaeva, Asiya; Bochkaeva, Zanda; Mmasa, Joel; … - 2019
This paper analyses the impacts of indirect tax policy reforms on income distribution and poverty in Tanzania by applying a standard static microsimulation model TAZMOD v1.8. The simulations model two indirect tax reforms involving changes to the excise duty and value-added tax rates on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011986913