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Poverty-Reducing Tax Reforms with Heterogeneous Agents
Makdissi, Paul; Duclos, Jean-Yves; Wodon, Quentin - Département d'économique, Faculté d'administration - 2002
The poverty impact of indirect tax reforms is analyzed using sequential stochastic dominance methods. This allows …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005770829
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Pro-Poor Tax reforms, with an Application to Mexico
Duclos, Jean-Yves; Makdissi, Paul; Araar, Abdelkrim - Département d'Économie / Department of Economics, … - 2009
-poor by a wide spectrum of poverty analysts. The statistical properties of the various estimators are also derived in order to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008491462
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Socially-Improving Tax Reforms
Makdissi, Paul; Duclos, Jean-Yves - Département d'économique, Faculté d'administration - 2002
of improving social welfare or decreasing poverty for large classes of social welfare and poverty indices. It also … derives estimators of critical poverty lines and economic efficiency ratios which can be used to characterize socially …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005642145
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Poverty-Reducing Directions of Indirect Marginal Tax Reforms in Ireland
Are, Wasiu Adekunle - School of Economics, University College Dublin - 2012
paper, we utilize Consumption Dominance curve techniques to analyse the impact of marginal indirect tax changes on poverty … marginal tax changes which will reduce poverty for some selected commodities over a broad class of poverty measures and poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010599020
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Is Value Added Tax (VAT) Reform in India Poverty Improving? An Analysis Of Data From Five Major States
ROY, POULOMI; RAYCHAUDHURI, AJITAVA; SINHA, SUDIP KUMAR - In: Indian Economic Review 45 (2010) 1, pp. 131-158
income. Considering both the distributive and efficiency criteria we search for a poverty reducing direction of VAT reform in … Bengal suggest that VAT reform is not largely poverty reducing. Further scopes of improvement in its design are observed. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008611385
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Multidimensional and Fuzzy Measures of Poverty and Inequality at National and Regional Level in Mozambique
Salvucci, Vincenzo; Betti, Gianni; Gagliardi, Francesca - Dipartimento di Economia Politica e Statistics, … - 2012
This study provides a step-by-step account of how fuzzy measures of non-monetary deprivation and also monetary poverty … complete mapping of poverty in Mozambique. Monetary and non-monetary deprivation seem to have very different distribution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010559932
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Using Efficiency Analysis to Measure Individual Well-Being with an Illustration for Catalonia
Ramos, Xavi - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
This paper shows how distance functions, a tool typically employed in production economics to measure the distance between a set of inputs and a set of outputs, can be employed to approximate a composite measure encompassing the many dimensions of well-being. It also illustrates how to implement...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703024
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Income, Health, and Well-Being around the World: Evidence from the Gallup World Poll
Deaton, Angus - Center for Health and Wellbeing, Woodrow Wilson School … - 2008
The great promise of surveys in which people report their own level of life satisfaction is that such surveys might provide a straightforward and easily collected measure of individual or national well-being that aggregates over the various components of well-being, such as economic status,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011150055
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Income, Health, and Well-Being around the World: Evidence from the Gallup World Poll
Deaton, Angus - Center for Health and Wellbeing, Woodrow Wilson School … - 2008
The great promise of surveys in which people report their own level of life satisfaction is that such surveys might provide a straightforward and easily collected measure of individual or national well-being that aggregates over the various components of well-being, such as economic status,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005558597
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Relative deprivation and individual well-being
Chen, Xi - In: IZA World of Labor (2015) April, pp. 1-10
poverty despite striking reductions in absolute poverty. The effects of relative deprivation explain why average happiness has …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011240764