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Welfare and redistributive effects of social assistance in the Global South
Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel - 2019
This paper presents an analysis of the recent evolution of social assistance in the developing world, looking at its complex typological configuration, which has interlinked with, and partly reflects the complex demographic and epidemiological transitions and rapid urbanization and economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012124448
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Welfare losses, preferences for redistribution, and political participation : evidence from the United Kingdom's age of austerity
Justino, Patricia; Martorano, Bruno; Metzger, Laura - 2023
, and peaceful protesting-and the role of preferences for redistribution in shaping the relationship between individual … from austerity increases political participation and strengthens preferences for government redistribution. The … experimental data suggests that changes in individual preferences for redistribution significantly shape the effect of austerity on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014261208
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Analysis of the distributional effects of COVID19 and state-led remedial measures in South Africa
Barnes, Helen; Espi-Sanchis, Gabriel; Leibbrandt, Murray V. - 2021
This paper explores the impact of the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa on income poverty and inequality in South Africa. Using a static tax-benefit microsimulation model with input datasets that were adjusted to reflect people's earned incomes just before the pandemic (March...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012509806
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Building a conservative welfare state in Botswana
Seekings, Jeremy - 2017
Botswana's welfare state is both a parsimonious laggard in comparison with some other middle-income countries in Africa (such as Mauritius and South Africa) and extensive (in comparison with its low-income neighbours to the north and east). Coverage is broad but cash transfers are modest. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011634633
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Financing the Zambia social cash transfer scale-up : a tax benefit microsimulation analysis based on MicroZAMOD
Kampamba, Remmy; Pellerano, Luca; Banda, Charles; … - 2019
This paper assesses the effects on poverty and inequality of the alternative targeting approaches that Zambia's Social Cash Transfer programme could take as its expansion continues during the period of the country's Seventh National Development Plan (2017-21). It further assesses the domestic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011986983
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Optimal taxation and public provision for poverty reduction
Kanbur, Ravi; Pirttilä, Jukka; Tuomala, Matti; Ylinen, … - 2015
The existing literature on optimal taxation typically assumes there exists a capacity to implement complex tax schemes, which is not necessarily the case for many developing countries. We examine the determinants of optimal redistributive policies in the context of a developing country that can...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011280723
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011532297
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Deflecting my burden, hindering redistribution : how elites influence tax legislation in Latin America
Bogliaccini, Juan A.; Luna, Juan Pablo - 2016
This paper proposes to understand a singular but salient factor that enables the wealthy to deflect their tax burden downwards: elites' political leverage to shape legislation via their capacity to influence political actors and policy outcomes. The analysis sheds light on alternative mechanisms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011517306
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"Delangokubona" and the distribution of rents and opportunity : an exploration of tensions over race-based policies of redress and redistribution in South Africa
Cawe, Ayabonga - 2022
Capital spending on infrastructure presents a significant counter-cyclical tool, however contested it might be in a society as unequal as South Africa. The history of racial capitalism, racebased exclusion from economic participation, and an enduring political economy based on the concentration...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013260025
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012816433