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Fiscal decentralisation and income inequality : empirical evidence from OECD countries
Stossberg, Sibylle; Bartolini, David; Blöchliger, Hansjörg - 2016
This paper investigates the relationship between fiscal decentralisation and economy-wide disposable income inequality … several indicators of national income inequality and a wide array of fiscal decentralisation indicators. The results indicate … a weak, inequality-reducing relationship between decentralisation and income inequality, as measured by the Gini …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011577949
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Moving towards fairer regional minimum income schemes in Spain
Hernández, Adrian; Picos, Fidel; Riscado, Sara - 2020
Minimum income schemes are set to provide citizens with a minimum living standard. In Spain, these schemes consist of a heterogeneous and complex collection of regional benefits designed and implemented by the Autonomous Communities. This generates important regional discrepancies among the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012241667
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Ireland's peculiar microfinance revolution, c. 1836-1845
McLaughlin, Eoin; Pecchenino, Rowena - 2019
In the decade before the famine, Ireland experienced a boom in Microfinance Institutions (MFIs). This paper analyses the motivations of MFI proponents and practitioners, and finds evidence linking the boom in MFIs with the introduction of the poor law in 1838. Many contemporary writers saw...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012007230
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Moving towards fairer regional minimum income schemes in Spain
Hernández, Adrian; Picos, Fidel; Riscado, Sara - 2020
Minimum income schemes are set to provide citizens with a minimum living standard. In Spain, these schemes consist of a heterogeneous and complex collection of regional benefits designed and implemented by the Autonomous Communities. This generates important regional discrepancies among the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012284803
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A Pause in the Growth of Inequality in China?
Herd, Richard - 2010
In recent years, policymaking in China has put increasing emphasis on stemming the growth in inequality, which had been fairly steep since the 1980s. Policy action has taken the form of regional development measures and of reforms of various aspects of the social safety net broadly defined. The...
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How Does Fiscal Decentralization Affect Within-Regional Disparities in Well-Being? Evidence from Health Inequalities in Italy
Di Novi, Cinzia - 2015
This paper aims at investigating empirically the impact of fiscal decentralization reforms on inequality in well-being. In particular, we look at the effects on health inequalities following the assignment of larger tax power to the Italian Regions for financing their health expenditure,...
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Income Inequality, Fiscal Decentralization and Transfer Dependency
Goerl, Caroline-Antonia - 2014
Within the context of reigniting post crisis macroeconomic growth, income inequality has emerged as a topic of significant interest for both academics and policymakers (Bastagli, Coady, and Gupta, 2012) This study builds on past literature on fiscal decentralization suggesting that...
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Cities drifting apart : heterogeneous outcomes of decentralizing public education
Brutti, Zelda - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 9 (2020) 1/3, pp. 1-38
Looking at the decentralized provision of public education in a middle-income country, this paper estimates the impact of local autonomy on service quality, finding large heterogeneity in the effect across different levels of local development. In the year 2002, Colombian municipalities were...
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A survey of inclusive growth policy
Heshmati, Almas; Kim, Jungsuk; Wood, Jacob - In: Economies : open access journal 7 (2019) 3/65, pp. 1-18
Background: Since the latter part of the 20th Century, countries have been particularly challenged by the trade-off that exists between delivering generous welfare provisions and strong economic growth. Such dynamics have stimulated a need to better understand the causes of income inequality so...
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A survey of the role of fiscal policy in addressing income inequality, poverty reduction and inclusive growth
Heshmati, Almas; Kim, Jungsuk - 2014
A growing concern on widening income gap between the rich and the poor, the policy mismatch in tackling the relative poverty and income inequality have invited increasing volumes of research focusing on the nexus between equity and efficient growth. Developed countries have experienced the...
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