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The Impact of Private Sector Growth on Poverty Reduction : Evidence from Indonesia
Suryadarma, Daniel; Suryahadi, Asep - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2007
This paper assesses the effect of public and private sector growth on poverty in Indonesia. We use fixed capital formation growth as the proxy for the private sector and growth in government spending as the indicator of the public sector. We find that growth in both sectors significantly reduces...
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Anatomy of the US Income Distribution: Two Decades of Change.
Karoly, L.A. - RAND - 1996
Forty years ago, Simon Kuznets, in his presidential address to the American Economics Association, outlined his hypothesis that the process of economic development would first be accompanied by rising disparities in economic well-being, followed by a period when the distribution wouls be stable...
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Growth, Inequality, and Poverty Reduction in Developing Countries: Recent Global Evidence
Fosu, Augustin Kwasi - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2011
-specific data are analyzed for the $1.25 and $2.50-level poverty headcount ratios using the most recent World Bank data.  The study …
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A comparison of the poverty impact of transfers, taxes, and market income across five OECD countries
Bibi, Sami; Duclos, Jean-Yves - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2009
This paper compares the poverty reduction impact of income sources, taxes and transfers across five OECD countries. Since the estimation of that impact can depend on the order in which the various income sources are introduced into the analysis, it is done by using the Shapley value. Estimates...
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A lost decade? Decomposing the effect of 2001-11 tax-benefit policy changes on the income distribution in EU countries
Paulus, Alari; Sutherland, Holly; Tasseva, Iva Valentinova - Centrum voor Sociaal Beleid - Herman Deleeck, … - 2014
This paper examines the extent to which tax and benefit policy changes introduced in the period 2001-11 had a poverty- or inequality-reducing effect. We assess whether the period was indeed a “missed opportunity” for policy changes to make a difference to poverty reduction since the Lisbon...
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Mobility and the dynamics of poverty in Iran: Evidence from the 1992–1995 panel survey
Salehi-Isfahani, Djavad; Majbouri, Mehdi - In: The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance 53 (2013) 3, pp. 257-267
In the last three decades, revolutionary Iran has experienced large shocks to its political and economic system with likely effects on poverty, inequality, and economic mobility. While poverty has declined, inequality has remained relatively high and stable over nearly four decades. In this...
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Has the income share of the middle and upper-middle been stable over time, or is its current homogeneity across the world the outcome of a process of convergence? The 'Palma Ratio'...
Palma, José Gabriel - Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge - 2014
of the middle and upper-middle around the world - the foundation of the so-called 'Palma Ratio' - is an historically … the world we have little choice but to keep reminding ourselves of what I believe to be the most crucial of all … invisible hand…). And if one not only wants to understand why inequality is so unequal across the world, but also get closer to …
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How Redistributive is Fiscal Policy in Latin America?: The Case of Chile and Mexico
Castelletti, Barbara - Centre de développement, Organisation de Coopération … - 2013
This paper looks at the incidence of fiscal policy on the income distribution for Chile and Mexico. Notably by broadening the income concept to account for in-kind benefits and taxes, this paper provides a full picture of the effect of fiscal policy on reducing income inequality. The contrast...
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Economic Growth from the Household Perspective: GDP and Income Distribution Developments Across OECD Countries
Causa, Orsetta; Araujo, Sonia; Cavaciuti, Agnès; Ruiz, … - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2014
This paper provides an assessment of how households’ income has fared compared with GDP. While the prime focus is on incomes around the median, attention is paid also to the bottom of the income distribution. Thus, one contribution of the paper is to deliver a fresh assessment of the evolution...
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Taxing Home Ownership: Distributional Effects of Including Net Imputed Rent in Taxable Income
Figari, Francesco; Paulus, Alari; Sutherland, Holly; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Imputed rental income of homeowners is tax exempt in most countries, despite the long-standing arguments recommending its inclusion in the tax base, on both equity and efficiency grounds. The current fiscal crisis revived interest towards this form of taxation. The paper investigates the fiscal...
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