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Learning from the "best" : the impact of tax-benefit systems in Africa
Bargain, Olivier; Jara, H. Xavier; Kwenda-Magejo, Prudence - 2018
Redistributive systems in Africa are still in their infancy but are constantly expanding in order to finance increasing public spending. This paper aims at characterizing the redistributive potential of six African countries: Ghana, Zambia, Mozambique, Tanzania, Ethiopia and South Africa. These...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011955580
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Learning from the "best" : the impact of tax-benefit systems in Africa
Bargain, Olivier; Jara, H. Xavier; Kwenda-Magejo, Prudence - 2019
Redistributive systems in Africa are still in their infancy but are constantly expanding in order to finance increasing public spending. This paper aims at characterizing the redistributive potential of six African countries: Ghana, Zambia, Mozambique, Tanzania, Ethiopia, and South Africa. These...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011966797
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Second earners and in-work poverty in Europe
Jara, H. Xavier; Popova, Daria - 2020
Dual or multiple earnership has been considered an important factor to prevent in-work poverty. The aim of this paper … is to quantify the impact of second earnership on the risk of in-work poverty and the role of the tax-benefit systems in … in preventing in-work poverty. This is done by simulating a counterfactual scenario where second earners become …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012293634
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Baseline results from the EU-27 EUROMOD (2009 - 2013)
Jara, H. Xavier; Leventi, Chrysa - 2014
and risk of poverty using EUROMOD and discuss the main reasons for differences between these and EU-SILC based indicators …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010422113
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Baseline results from the EU27 EUROMOD (2009 - 2012)
Jara, H. Xavier; Sutherland, Holly; Avram, Silvia; De … - 2013
inequality and risk of poverty using EUROMOD and discuss the main reasons for differences between these and EU-SILC based …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009773091
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Baseline results from the new EU27 EUROMOD (2007-2010)
Jara, H. Xavier; Sutherland, Holly; Avram, Silivia; De … - 2013
indicators for income inequality and risk of poverty using EUROMOD and discuss the main reasons for differences between these and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009712467
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The role of automatic stabilizers and emergency tax-benefit policies during the COVID-19 pandemic in Ecuador
Jara, H. Xavier; Montesdeoca, Lourdes; Tasseva, Iva - 2021
dramatic increase in income poverty and inequality between December 2019 and June 2020. The poverty rate, measured with the … national poverty line, goes up from 25.7 to 58.2 per cent over this period and extreme poverty increases from 9.2 to 38.6 per …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012416536
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The mitigating role of tax and benefit rescue packages for poverty and inequality in Africa amid the COVID-19 pandemic
Lastunen, Jesse; Rattenhuber, Pia; Adu-Ababio, Kwabena; … - 2021
-benefit policies stabilized earnings losses. We then evaluate the impact on income-based poverty and inequality and the contribution of … discretionary tax-benefit policies in alleviating the shock. Our analysis shows modest increases in headcount poverty rates and … inequality, and somewhat larger effects on the poverty gap due to lower relative earnings losses of the poor population at the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012650881
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Microsimulation of tax-benefit systems in the Global South : a comparative assessment
Lastunen, Jesse; Mahieu, Antoine de; Gasior, Katrin; … - 2024
This paper analyses the effectiveness of tax-benefit systems in reducing poverty and inequality across 13 countries in … to poverty and inequality. Additionally, we assess gender disparities in outcomes, quantify the distributional effects of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014534792