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National Institute for Urban and Rural Planning - 2012

By the year 2020, Ha Long will be a city of tourism, a center of seaborne commerce, a commercial capital and playing the role of a core urban area in the Northern region of Vietnam. It will be a place that will attract investment and tourism from all over the world with a growing, dynamic,...

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Playing to strength : growth strategy for small agrarian economies in Africa

Yusuf, Shahid; Kumar, Praveen - 2018

With urban industrialization on the scale achieved by East Asian economies looking increasingly less plausible, small economies in Africa need an alternative strategic approach to long-term growth. The purpose of this paper is to identify a growth strategy with the greatest potential for small,...

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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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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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Toward successful development policies : insights from research in development economics

Artuc, Erhan; Cull, Robert J.; Dasgupta, Susmita; Jaef, … - 2020

What major insights have emerged from development economics in the past decade, and how do they matter for the World Bank? This challenging question was recently posed by World Bank Group President David Malpass to the staff of the Development Research Group. This paper assembles a set of 13...

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Understanding the cost of achieving the Sustainable Development Goals

Vorisek, Dana; Yu, Shu - 2020

This paper presents a review of studies that estimate the cost of achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. Although the Sustainable Development Goals provide useful benchmarks for fiscal authorities and donors, typical cross-country costing exercises can be misleading, for a variety 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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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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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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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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