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Poverty, inequality, and agriculture in the EU
Azevedo, João Pedro; Brink, Rogerius Johannes Eugenius … - 2018
Boosting convergence and shared prosperity in the European Union achieved renewed urgency after the global financial crisis of 2008. This paper assesses the role of agriculture and the Common Agricultural Program in achieving this. The paper sheds light on the relationship between poverty and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012002270
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Indonesia - The Rise of Metropolitan Regions : Towards Inclusive and Sustainable Regional Development
World Bank - 2012
In recent years, Indonesia has made great strides in economic growth and development. This growth has been accompanied … growth by facilitating the emergence of agglomeration and localization economies. Increasing urbanization presents Indonesia … that over the last four decades, Indonesia has not derived optimal returns on urban development, as can be seen by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012247625
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Indonesia Inequalities in Health, Nutrition and Population
Oomman, Nandini - 2003
This paper focuses on the inequalities in health, nutrition, and population in Indonesia. It presents data on … presented in the Indonesia version of socio-economic differences in health, nutrition, and population and presents them in a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012645166
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The Distributional Effects of Tobacco Taxation : The Evidence of White and Clove Cigarettes in Indonesia
Fuchs, Alan - 2018
. Using an extended cost-benefit analysis to estimate the distributional effect of white and clove cigarettes in Indonesia … distributional impacts of price rises on cigarettes under various scenarios using 2015-16 Indonesia National Socioeconomic Surveys …. More research is needed to clarify the distributional effects of tobacco taxation in Indonesia …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012645391
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The distributional effects of tobacco taxation : the evidence of white and clove cigarettes in Indonesia
Fuchs, Alan; Del Carmen, Giselle - 2018
. Using an extended cost-benefit analysis to estimate the distributional effect of white and clove cigarettes in Indonesia … distributional impacts of price rises on cigarettes under various scenarios using 2015-16 Indonesia National Socioeconomic Surveys …. More research is needed to clarify the distributional effects of tobacco taxation in Indonesia …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011903162
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Economic and distributional impacts of free trade agreements : the case of Indonesia
Calì, Massimiliano; Maliszewska, Maryla; Olekseyuk, Zoryana - 2019
ante estimates of the impacts of two key preferential trade agreements currently negotiated by Indonesia, the largest … Indonesia may negotiate in the future. To that end it, combines a dynamic, multi-country computable general equilibrium model … the preferential trade agreements considered, the European Union-Indonesia Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012121136
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Cross-region transfers in a monetary union : evidence from the US and some implications
Pennings, Steven - 2020
US federal transfers to individuals are large, countercyclical, vary geographically, and are often credited for helping stabilize regional economies. This paper estimates the short-run effects of these transfers using plausibly exogenous regional variation in temporary stimulus packages and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012241154
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Where they live : district-level measures of poverty, average consumption, and the middle class in Central Asia
Seitz, William - 2019
Rapid economic growth over the past two decades lifted millions of people out of poverty in Central Asia. But the uneven spread of prosperity left many communities struggling to catch up. To support lagging regions within countries, each of the region's five national governments has made...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012059249
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Using labor supply elasticities to learn about income inequality : the role of productivities versus preferences
Bergstrom, Katy; Dodds, William - 2020
This paper argues that labor supply elasticities encode information about the determinants of income inequality. In the theoretical framework, individuals choose labor supply conditional on productivities and preferences for consumption relative to leisure. The paper shows that reduced-form...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012228176
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Impact of fiscal policy on inequality and poverty in the Arab Republic of Egypt
Ibarra, Gabriel Lara; Sinha, Nistha; Fayez, Rana; … - 2019
This study assesses the redistributive impact of fiscal policy -- including expenditures and taxation -- in the Arab Republic of Egypt. Using a broadly applied methodology, a fiscal incidence analysis is conducted using survey and government data for fiscal year 2015. Evidence shows that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012022288