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This dissertation examines the implementation of decentralization in Indonesia andmeasures the incentives of fiscal … methodology, the efficiency of Indonesia’s 26 statesgovernment expenditure over a 10-year period (1996-2005) is constructed using …, InstitutionalDevelopment, Public Expenditure, Capital Investments, Indonesia …
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promote economic growth and alleviate poverty. The first of three major issues in this dissertation analyses macroeconomic … second issue evaluates policies which alleviate poverty by increasing agricultural production, creating employment and …
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promote economic growth and alleviate poverty. The first of three major issues in this dissertation analyses macroeconomic … second issue evaluates policies which alleviate poverty by increasing agricultural production, creating employment and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009457368
the development of the state. The multiple roles of credit have generated growth, helped in poverty reduction, but also … correlated, for instance, the strong negative relationship between income and the Human Poverty Index. The study, therefore …
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In this paper we use a general equilibrium model of Vietnam, calibrated to 1995 data, to analyze tax reform options for Vietnam. We focus on aggregate welfare impacts as well as welfare of household groups ranked by income. The main focus is on indirect tax reform (VAT), but we also examine...
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In U.S. federal income tax, the standard deduction, along with the personal exemptions, provides taxpayers with a minimum amount of untaxed income, effectively creating a "zero bracket amount." For historical and political reasons, however, the standard deduction also operates as a simplified...
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This paper explores the interaction between the federal Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) and the cost-of-living faced by single mothers. After the 1993 EITC expansion, we identify up to a 10 percentage point increase in labor force participation for single mothers in the lowest cost areas but no...
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A widely shared intuition holds that individual control over money matters forthe decision process within the household and the subsequent distribution of re-sources and welfare. As a consequence, there are good reasons to depart from theunitary model of the household and to explore the...
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The literature on household behavior contains hardly any empirical research on the within household distributional effects of tax-benefit policies. We simulate this effect in the framework of a collective model of labor supply when shifting from a joint to an individual taxation system inFrance....
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We suggest a methodology to calibrate a collective model with household-specific bargaining rules and marriage-specific preferences that incorporate leisure externalities. The empirical identification relies on the assumption that some aspects of individual preferences remain the same after...
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