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access to healthy, nutritious food can threaten children’s birth weight, physical and mental development and increase the … adversity over a prolonged period can trigger toxic stress that rewires children’s brains, disrupts their social development and … and well-being, social-emotional skills and IQ. The increases in parental income of these children after only five years …
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Despite this phenomenal success and the Biden administration’s strong support, a divided Congress narrowly failed to extend these enhancements to 2022. The adverse impact was immediate. The January 2022 monthly child poverty rate increased by more than 40 percent to 17 percent in January 2022,...
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This paper studies the relationship between trade tax and domestic tax reforms and poverty in developing countries, and explores whether the role of public goods provision matters in this relationship. Using a sample of 91 developing countries for the 1980-2016 period, I model the trade tax...
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such programmes on incomes and poverty during crises, especially in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) where they are … social protection and taxation in LMICs during periods of crisis. The results reveal that LMICs often enact both vertical and …
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This paper investigates the effects of the Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) on residents of buildings qualifying … different characteristics, and among families that have varying income levels and varying levels of housing security prior to … the housing subsidy provides families with a more stable living situation and with more disposable income …
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In Jordan, a system of general food subsidies became untenable in budgetary terms, with a sharp devaluation of the dinar in the late 1980s. A shift from a general subsidy system to limited rations would greatly reduce budgetary costs and minimize adverse effects on the poor. To reduce subsidies,...
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increase in taxation reduces poverty but worsens income inequality. Further, an increase in taxation negatively affects the … being considered inclusive, given the persistently high levels of poverty and income inequality across the continent. To … public debt service exacerbates both poverty and income inequality, underscoring the adverse consequences of mounting public …
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recommendations on how taxation should be used to address problems of inequality and poverty. The research methodology is based on a … taxation and social spending on inequality and poverty in individual countries. The dataset consists of data from the World … Inequality Data Base and data from State Statistic Service of Ukraine. The analysis shows that income tax reform in Ukraine …
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sector jobs. This paper quantifies impacts on income distribution and efficiency of expanding developing countries' social …
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competition. -- Poverty ; human capital ; life-cycle analysis ; lifetime income ; education ; taxation ; transfers …. The present value of human capital is determined by all future income flows, which at the same time constitute the … individual as well as the total tax base of a nation. Therefore, the income of the productive population determines the total tax …
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