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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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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/10012146489
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Learning from the 'Best' : The Impact of Tax-Benefit Systems in Africa
Bargain, Olivier - 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/10012894556
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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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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
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Improving income protection for the elderly poor in Ecuador
Amores L., César A.; Jara, H. Xavier - 2018
-age beneficiaries still live in poverty and the recent fall in oil prices has put increasing pressure on government expenditures to …. Our results show that increasing pension assistance to match the level of the poverty line in Ecuador would reduce elderly … poverty by 40% and would take 18% of old-age beneficiaries out of poverty. We analyze the effect of additional hypothetical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011864850
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Income redistribution in Latin America : a microsimulation approach
Arancibia Romero, Cristina; Dondo, Mariana; Jara, H. Xavier - 2019
importance of tax-benefit instruments across countries and on the effect of taxes and benefits on poverty and inequality. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011966611
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Tax-benefit microsimulation and income redistribution in Ecuador
Jara, H. Xavier; Varela, Marcelo - 2017
The aim of this paper is to explore the redistributive effects of taxes and benefits in Ecuador using two different approaches: direct use of reported taxes and benefits in household survey data, and use of simulated taxes and benefits obtained from ECUAMOD, the tax-benefit microsimulation model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011777296
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The role of tax-benefit systems in protecting household incomes in Latin America during the COVID-19 pandemic
Rodriguez, David; Jara, H. Xavier; Dondo, Mariana; … - 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic drastically affected household incomes around the world. In developed economies, pre-pandemic tax-benefit policies and emergency transfers mitigated to a large extent the negative income shock. However, less is known about the effect of government intervention on household...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013441743