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I perceive therefore I demand : the formation of inequality perceptions and demand for redistribution

Bussolo, Maurizio; Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada; Giolbas, Anna; … - 2019

This paper investigates the link between inequality and demand for redistribution by looking at how individuals form … their perceptions of inequality. Most of the literature analyzing demand for redistribution has focused on objective … inequality, rather than subjective perceptions of inequality. However, a model that links demand for redistribution to subjective …

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Mongolia : distributional impact of taxes and transfers

Freije, Samuel; Yang, Judy S. - 2018

(the child money program and the mortgage subsidy) do little redistribution-the latter is actually regressive-but represent …

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Informality, consumption taxes and redistribution

Bachas, Pierre; Gadenne, Lucie; Jensen, Anders - 2020

Can consumption taxes reduce inequality in developing countries? This paper combines household expenditure data from 31 countries with theory to shed new light on the redistributive potential and optimal design of consumption taxes. It uses the place of purchase of each expenditure to proxy for...

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Global Inequality : The Implications of Thomas Piketty's Capital in the 21st Century

Lakner, Christoph - 2016

In the 2000s, global inequality fell for the first time since the Industrial Revolution, driven by a decline in the dispersion of average incomes across countries. Between 1988 and 2008, a period of rapidly increasing global integration, income growth was largest for the global top 1 percent and...

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Fiscal Policy in Colombia : Tapping Its Potential for a More Equitable Society

Moller, Lars Christian - 2012

, which exhibits much lower income disparities, mainly as a result of effective policies of fiscal redistribution. In Colombia …

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What are the poverty and inequality impacts of fiscal policy in Turkey?

Cuevas, P. Facundo; Lucchetti, Leonardo; Nebiler, Metin - 2020

Fiscal policy is central to not only macroeconomic stability and growth, but also to poverty and inequality reduction. This paper provides the most comprehensive assessment of the distributional incidence of Turkey's fiscal policy to date. It analyzes the combined and individual incidence of...

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The redistributive effects of fiscal policy in Mali and Niger

Hounsa, Thierry; Coulibaly, Mohamed; Sanoh, Aly - 2019

This study assesses the redistributive effects of fiscal policy in Mali and Niger. Fiscal policy is poverty increasing in Mali (by 2.4 percentage points) and Niger (2.5 percentage points). This is a result of primarily two factors: indirect taxes (value-added taxes and import duties) and direct...

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RUSMOD : a tool for distributional analysis in the Russian Federation

Matycin, Michail Ja.; Popova, Daria; Freije, Samuel - 2019

The purpose of this paper is to introduce applications of RUSMOD - a microsimulation model for fiscal incidence analysis in the Russian Federation. RUSMOD combines household survey micro-data and fiscal policy rules to simulate the Russian tax-benefit system: the size and distribution of taxes...

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Impact of fiscal policy on poverty and inequality in Uganda : fiscal incidence analysis using the UNHS 2016/17

Mejía Mantilla, Carolina; Fajardo-Gonzalez, Johanna; … - 2019

This study analyzes the incidence of public revenues (tax collection) and expenditures (including direct and indirect transfers, indirect subsidies, and in-kind transfers) on the level of poverty and inequality in Uganda, using the internationally recognized methodology developed by the...

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Demand and Supply Curves in Political Markets : Understanding the Problem of Public Goods and Why Governments Fail Them

Khemani, Stuti - 2017

This paper brings the economic tools of demand and supply curves to better understand how political markets shape the selection of government policies. It does so to tackle a problem at the intersection of political science and economics: government failure to pursue policies on the basis of...

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