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Education, Growth, and Redistribution in the Presence of Capital Flight

Chakrabarty, Debajyoti - 2006

The conventional wisdom in the literature on capital controls and growth argues that capital controls increase the ability of a government to tax capitalists which proves detrimental for growth. To address this issue, we construct an OLG model to study the effect of capital controls on human...

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The political economy of redistribution and (in) efficiency in Latin America and The Caribbean

Altube, Matias Guizzo; Scartascini, Carlos G.; Tommasi, … - 2023

“the rich are powerful and they dont like taxes, hence we have little taxation and little redistribution.” That is a good … taxation and non-negligible redistributive efforts. But in some of those cases such redistribution comes hand in hand with … outcomes (including the degree of redistribution and others). We postulate that each configuration of social outcomes emerges …

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Income inequality, fertility, human capital accumulation and economic growth in Mexico

Charles-Coll, Jorge; Mayer Granados, Elizabeth; Garza … - In: Research in world economy 6 (2015) 1, pp. 172-183

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Federalism, Taxation, and Economic Growth

Hatfield, John William - 2006

We show that federalism will lead to higher economic growth. We present a model of endogenous growth where government services, funded by income and capital taxes, are a component of production. In this model a decentralized government will choose tax policy to maximize economic growth, while a...

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Fiscal federalism in Nigeria : implication for growth

Onwioduokit, Emmanuel Ating; Esu, Godwin Essang - In: West African journal of monetary and economic integration 18 (2018) 2, pp. 70-95

Nigeria has been a federation before 1963. This was expected to foster speedy growth and development, but military interferences seem to have bedevil this dream. However, an uninterrupted democracy for about 20 years should have produced a significant result, but not much has changed. Many have...

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Ageing, government budgets, retirement, and growth

Gonzalez-Eiras, Martín; Niepelt, Dirk - 2011

We analyze the short and long run effects of demographic ageing - increased longevity and reduced fertility - on per-capita growth. The OLG model captures direct effects, working through adjustments in the savings rate, labor supply, and capital deepening, and indirect effects, working through...

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Public debt in an OLG model with imperfect competition : long-run effects of austerity programs and changes in the growth rate

Skott, Peter; Ryoo, Soon - 2013

We show that (i) dynamic inefficiency may be empirically relevant in a modified Diamond model with imperfect competition, (ii) if fiscal policy is used to avoid inefficiency and maintain an optimal capital intensity, the required debt ratio will be inversely related to the growth rate, and (iii)...

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Ageing, government budgets, retirement, and growth

Gonzalez-Eiras, Martín; Niepelt, Dirk - 2011

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Ageing, Government Budgets, Retirement, and Growth

Gonzalez-Eiras, Martín - 2011

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Composition of Government Expenditure, Human Capital Accumulation, and Welfare

Matovu, John - 2021

This paper uses a dynamic general equilibrium model calibrated to Ugandan data to examine the welfare effects of alternative scenarios of government expenditure and tax financing. Two expenditure types are considered: social spending that affects human capital, and infrastructure expenditures...

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