-wage earners would make inroads into poverty and inequality while encouraging formal work. This paper accompanies and extends the … that balances goals of reducing poverty, encouraging employment and fiscal sustainability. Using the OECD’s Tax-Benefit and … revenues and increase inequality, by reducing the progressivity of the personal tax system. A proposed reform package that …

capture resource-based transmission of culture. Third, overall remittances send from the donor countries are used as proxy for … recipient countries, and, last but not least, (c) larger remittances sent from donor countries strengthen the growth effects of …

remittances to their countries of origin. In 2004, remittances exceeded official development aid in several emigration countries …