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The poverty impact of indirect tax reforms is analyzed using sequential stochastic dominance methods. This allows …
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The poverty impact of indirect tax reforms is analyzed using sequential stochastic dominance methods. This allows …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005795969
of improving social welfare or decreasing poverty for large classes of social welfare and poverty indices. It also … derives estimators of critical poverty lines and economic efficiency ratios which can be used to characterize socially …
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of improving social welfare or decreasing poverty for large classes of social welfare and poverty indices. It also … derives estimators of critical poverty lines and economic efficiency ratios which can be used to characterize socially …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005696314
The poverty impact of indirect tax reforms is analyzed using sequential stochastic dominance methods. This allows …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005696413
income. Considering both the distributive and efficiency criteria we search for a poverty reducing direction of VAT reform in … Bengal suggest that VAT reform is not largely poverty reducing. Further scopes of improvement in its design are observed. …
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improving social welfare or decreasing poverty for large classes of social welfare and poverty indices. We also derive … estimators of critical poverty lines and economic efficiency ratios which can be used to characterize socially-efficient tax …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005670335
This paper develops an Index of Economic Well-being (IEWB) for the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Germany, Norway and Sweden for the period 1980 to 2001 which recognizes four components: Current effective per capita consumption flows; Net societal accumulation of stocks of...
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This paper is intended to shed light on the extent of poverty in the Russian Federation. We present estimates of … poverty lines and poverty ratios derived from subjective questions used in a during data collection for a large household … panel (RUSSET). We estimate poverty using a subjective approach, where the level of the poverty line is derived using the …
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In this chapter, Lars Osberg and Andrew Sharpe provide an overview of trends in a number of dimensions of economic well-being (consumption flows, stocks of wealth, income equality, and economic security) from the lens of the Index of Economic Well-being, a new composite measure of economic...
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