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Could/should Jubilee debt cancellations be reintroduced today?
Hudson, Michael; Goodhart, Charles A. E. - 2018
In this paper the authors recall the history of Jubilee debt cancellations, emphasizing what their social purpose was at that time. They note that it would not be possible to copy that procedure exactly nowadays, primarily because most debt/credit relationships are intermediated via financial...
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Could/should Jubilee debt cancellations be reintroduced today? If not, what alternative measures of debt relief and redistribution might be possible?
Hudson, Michael; Goodhart, Charles A. E. - 2018
In this paper the authors recall the history of Jubilee debt cancellations, emphasizing what their social purpose was at that time. They note that it would not be possible to copy that procedure exactly nowadays, primarily because most debt/credit relationships are intermediated via financial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011873351
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Should Governments Tax the Rich and Subsidize the Poor? An Empirical Study of Opinion in the United States
McGee, Robert W. - 2016
The present study reports the findings of a survey conducted by the World Values Survey scientists in the United States on the question of whether governments should tax the rich and subsidize the poor. The sample size of 2166 consisted of individuals from all parts of the United States. A...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012978714
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How Donald Trump Can Keep His Campaign Promises, Grow the Economy, Cut Tax Rates, Repatriate Offshore Earnings, Reduce Income Inequality, Keep Jobs in the United States, Reduce the...
Miller, David S. - 2017
This paper discusses President Trump's tax proposals and the House Republicans' Blueprint, and makes a number of suggestions that would allow President Trump to keep all of his tax policy campaign promises and some others
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012964350
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Vanishing Corporate Income and Government Spending in Distribution Models
Driessen, Patrick - 2014
Many distribution models that are workhorses for tax policy, and more broadly for research on immobility and inequality, are insufficient welfare measures of either the status quo or policy proposals. This paper explores two fundamental modeling problems: The omission of corporate income, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013046018
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How Mark-to-Market Taxation Can Lower the Corporate Tax Rate and Reduce Income Inequality
Miller, David S. - 2015
Democrats and Republicans agree that the U.S. international tax system needs fixing, and the U.S. corporate tax rate is too high. Americans across the ideological spectrum see income inequality as a big problem.Reducing income inequality can allow a reduction in the corporate tax rate and help...
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Dual BEIT's Effects on Revenue and Distribution
Driessen, Patrick - 2017
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012949490
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What Conditions Tax Distribution and Dynamic Scoring Are In
Driessen, Patrick - 2013
Tax reform, particularly business tax reform, could be affected by the recent CBO/JCT integration of macroeconomic effects (dynamic scoring) into the official estimate of the Senate immigration bill. Another technical wrinkle is that major institutional approaches to tax distribution all favor,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013071661
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Strengthening the tax system to reduce inequalities and increase revenues in South Africa
Fall, Falilou - 2022
The Covid-19 crisis has exacerbated the already deteriorating fiscal situation in South Africa. The current consolidation strategy, based on spending cuts and reprioritisation of spending items, has reached its limits and is insufficient to stabilise the debt ratio in the medium term and fund...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013523842
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Effects of an education reform on household poverty and inequality : a microsimulation analysis on the free Senior High School policy in Ghana
Adu-Ababio, Kwabena; Osei, Robert Darko - 2018
accessible to all. In Ghana - although basic education is largely free - for secondary education this was not the case until … effect of the reform on household poverty and inequality. Analysis is based on the Ghana Microsimulation Model which has the … Ghana Living Standards Survey - Round 6 as its base input data. Results provide policy makers with some good ex …
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