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Tobacco taxes have positive impacts on health outcomes. However, policy makers often hesitate to use them because of the perception that poorer households are affected disproportionally more than richer households. This study compares the simulated distributional effects of tobacco tax increases...
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This paper assesses the impact of fiscal policy on the incidence, depth, and severity of poverty, and examines whether … combined effect of taxes and social spending helped substantially to reduce poverty and inequality in Poland in 2014, in line … capacity to redistribute, it had a relatively weak capacity to reduce poverty given the resources at its disposal, and this was …
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transfers, indirect subsidies, and in-kind transfers) on the level of poverty and inequality in Uganda, using the …-kind transfers, are the biggest contributors to reducing inequality. Although equalizing, fiscal policy is poverty-inducing in Uganda … indirect taxes; the poverty headcount ratio increases by 2.3 percentage points. Going forward, the combination of raising …
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-term frictional unemployment across countries. The resulting evidence indicates that there is a robust, negative partial correlation … between national unemployment rates and the incidence of the digital economy, proxied by the share of the adult population … correlation between unemployment and the digital economy, which is due to the existence of a negative bivariate correlation …
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-targeting transfers to poor people. This incentive argument does not imply, however, that workfare is more cost-effective against poverty … that for the same budget, workfare has less impact on poverty than either a basic-income scheme (providing the same … transfer to all) or uniform transfers based on the government's below-poverty-line ration cards. For workfare to dominate other …
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and poverty levels, as well as to the misclassification of some individuals as regards to their poverty status. Using a … overall poverty rate, but individual poverty statuses are affected. Intra-household consumption inequalities accounts for 14 … intra-household inequality and individual risk of poverty …
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This paper proposes a methodology to approximate individual income distribution dynamics using only time series data on aggregate moments of the income distribution. Under the assumption that individual incomes follow a lognormal autoregressive process, this paper shows that the evolution over...
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sheds light on the relationship between poverty and agriculture as part of the process of structural transformation. It … regional level where the Common Agricultural Program funding tends to go, poverty-wise, within each country. This approach …
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An extensive literature on poverty traps suggests that high levels of poverty deter growth. However, a seemingly basic … implication of the underlying theoretical models, namely that countries suffering from higher levels of poverty should grow less … affect growth in opposing directions. Because inequality and poverty are different aspects of the income distribution …
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transfers. The findings show that the system is progressive and contributes to reductions in poverty and inequality. The Gini ….76 Gini points (around 16 percent). Something similar happens with the poverty rate, which decreases from 47.31 to 31 …
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