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Microsimulation approaches to studying shocks and social protection in selected developing economies
Adu-Ababio, Kwabena - 2022
This paper calculates automatic stabilization in Ghana, South Africa, and Ecuador to explain income cushioning amid income and demand shocks. Fiscal policies within these countries are also stress tested to gauge welfare contingencies and insurance. A discretionary action approach is adopted for...
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The impact of opportunity zones on private investment and economic activity
Corinth, Kevin; Feldman, Naomi - 2023 - This draft: November 13, 2023
-being of residents. A provision of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act aimed to spur private investment in low-income areas called … Opportunity Zones (OZs). We evaluate the impact of OZs on investment using data on the near-universe of commercial retail, office … estimates of the effect of OZ eligibility on census tract-level investment. Additional data from MasterCard show no robust …
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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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The eficacy of fiscal policy in promoting economic growth and reducing poverty in Nigeria
Asaju, Kayode; Adagba, Sunday Onah; Kajang, Thomas John - In: Research in world economy 5 (2014) 1, pp. 65-74
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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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Does government spending affect income poverty? : a meta-regression analysis
Anderson, Edward; Jalles d'Orey, Maria Ana; Duvendack, Maren - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 103 (2018), pp. 60-71
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Fiscal policy, inequality and the poor in the developing world
Lustig, Nora - 2016
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Fiscal policy, inequality and the poor in the developing world
Lustig, Nora - 2016
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Fiscal policy, income redistribution and poverty reduction in low and middle income countries
Lustig, Nora - 2017
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Fiscal policy, inequality, and the poor in the developing world
Lustig, Nora - 2016
Using comparable fiscal incidence analysis, this paper examines the impact of fiscal policy on inequality and poverty in 25 countries for around 2010. Success in fiscal redistribution is driven primarily by redistributive effort (share of social spending to GDP in each country) and the extent to...
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