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Female say on income and child outcomes : evidence from Nigeria

Ngenzebuke, Rama Lionel - 2016

This paper delves into the effect of female bargaining power on child education and labor outcomes in Nigeria. Female bargaining power is proxied by female say on labor income, rather than by female income per se. This is motivated by the fact female labor force participation might be low in...

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Inequality and growth : a review on a great open debate in economics

Baselgia, Enea; Foellmi, Reto - 2022

What is the relationship between inequality and growth? This question has occupied and fascinated social scientists for more than a century. This article critically reviews the recent empirical and theoretical literature on the complex interplay between inequality and economic growth. Inequality...

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On some problems of variable population poverty comparisons

Hassoun, Nicole; Subramanian, Sreenivasan - 2010

This paper demonstrates that the property of 'replication invariance', generally considered to be an innocuous requirement for the extension of fixed-population poverty comparisons to variable-population contexts, is incompatible with other plausible variable- and fixed-population axioms. --...

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The centre cannot hold : patterns of polarization in Nigeria

Clementi, Fabio; Dabalen, Andrew L.; Molini, Vasco; … - 2014

Our hypothesis is that Nigeria is going through a process of economic polarization. An analysis of this type is new for Nigeria; the limited availability of comparable data has hindered an investigation that requires data series not too close in time. The present paper tries to overcome this...

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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...

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National Care System in Uruguay : who benefits and who pays?

Amarante, Verónica; Colacce, Maira; Tenenbaum, Victoria - 2017

In this paper, we analyse two specific policies that make up the National Care System, a social policy being implemented in Uruguay. Through the calibration of a static tax benefit model, we estimate the distributive impact of the expansion of childcare services and home-based care for dependent...

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Taxation and inequality in developing countries : lessons from the recent experience of Latin America

Martorano, Bruno - International Centre for Tax and Development - 2016

This paper aims to advance understanding about the relationship between taxation and inequality in developing countries, focusing on the recent experience of Latin America. Although the tax system was regressive in the 1990s, tax changes promoted equality in the first decade of the 2000s. In...

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Linking taxation and social protection : evidence on redistribution and poverty reduction in Ethiopia

Hirvonen, Kalle; Mascagni, Giulia; Roelen, Keetie - 2016

. Redistribution is important for reaching these goals, and is shaped by countries' tax and welfare systems. Despite redistribution … common belief that social spending is more suitable than taxation to achieve redistribution. We also assessed whether … Ethiopia would have the capacity to achieve the desired level of redistribution by applying higher marginal rates on relatively …

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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 political participation in Mexico. The results show that increases in the coverage of the programme during the 2008 financial crisis resulted in greater individual participation in...

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On the 'inclusiveness' of India's consumption expenditure growth

Jayaraj, Dhairiyarayar; Subramanian, Sreenivasan - 2012

This paper reviews the evidence on the 'inclusiveness' of the growth in consumption expenditure that has occurred in India over the last four decades or so. The notion of dynamic inclusiveness is framed in terms of imagined normative allocations of the inter-temporal product of growth, as...

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