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Effets redistributifs d'un régime d'allocation universelle: une simulation pour le Québec
Araar, Abdelkrim; Duclos, Jean-Yves; Blais, François - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2003
The paper simulates the redistributive impact of three possible scenarios for the introduction of a basic income (BI, also sometimes called "citizens' income") in Québec. The simulations are revenue neutral at the joint provincial-federal government level. The first scenario assumes that a set...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005696291
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Redistributive Effects of a Basic Income System : A Simulation for Quebec
Duclos, Jean-Yves; Araar, Abdelkrim; Blais, Francois - 2003
The paper simulates the redistributive impact of three possible scenarios for the introduction of a basic income (BI, also sometimes called "citizens' income") in Quebec. The simulations are revenue neutral at the joint provincial-federal government level. The first scenario assumes that a set...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014086678
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Multidimensional poverty and child well-being in Kenya
Kabubo-Mariara, Jane; Araar, Abdelkrim; Duclos, Jean-Yves - In: Journal of Developing Areas 47 (2013) 2, pp. 109-137
Previous child health evidence in Kenya has been based on uni-dimensional poverty analysis. Assessing the multiple aspects of child well-being can help, however, reveal complexities and ambiguities in the distribution of child well-being. This paper analyses multidimensional aspects of child...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011096530
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Comparison of the Tax System Progressivity Over Time: Theory and Application with Mexican Data
Araar, Abdelkrim; Huesca, Luis - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2014
Mexico and its effect on inequality and on polarization, and this during the period of 2002-2012. What distinguishes this …-tax income inequality. Based on our estimates, we find a significant increase in the progressivity of the fiscal system over time …, despite the high persistent levels of polarization and inequality in the country. Finally, we find that imposing the common …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010786403
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Expected Poverty Changes with Economic Growth and Redistribution
Araar, Abdelkrim - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2012
or that of the change in inequality on poverty. During the last few years, there was a growing interest to perform such …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010541470
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Poverty and Inequality Components: a Micro Framework
Araar, Abdelkrim; Duclos, Jean-Yves - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2007
This paper explores the link between poverty and inequality through an analysis of the poverty impact of changes in … income-component inequality and in between -an within- group inequality. This can help shed light on the theoretical and … empirical linkages between poverty, growth and inequality. It might also help design policies to improve both equity and welfare …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005015245
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DAD: a Software for Poverty and Distributive Analysis
Araar, Abdelkrim; Duclos, Jean-Yves - Partenariat en Politiques Économiques (PEP), … - 2006
DAD is designed to facilitate the analysis and the comparisons of social welfare, inequality, poverty and equity across …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005696365
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The Impact of Oil Exploitation on Wellbeing in Chad
Gadom, Djal-Gadom - 2018
This study assesses the impact of oil revenues on wellbeing in Chad using data from the two last Chad Household Consumption and Informal Sector Surveys (ECOSIT 2 & 3), conducted in 2003 and 2011, respectively, by the National Institute of Statistics for Economics and Demographic Studies (INSEED)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012921445
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Pro-Poor Tax Reforms, with an Application to Mexico
Duclos, Jean-Yves; Makdissi, Paul; Araar, Abdelkrim - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2010
This paper proposes a methodology for testing for whether tax reforms are pro-poor. This is done by extending stochastic dominance techniques to help identify tax reforms that will necessarily be deemed absolutely or relatively pro-poor by a wide spectrum of poverty analysts. The statistical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008623421
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Progressivity and decomposition of VAT in the Mexican border, 2014
Huesca, Luis; Valencia, Arturo Robles; Araar, Abdelkrim - Departamento de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad … - 2015
We measure the general redistributive effect in the Mexican fiscal system and its northern border with two decomposition approaches. The novelty of this application lies in the use of non-parametric techniques and the fact that we did not assume any functional relationship among the variables in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011167103