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Housing the Poor
Agarwal, Siddharth - 2017
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012953088
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Revisiting the impact of direct taxes and transfers on poverty and inequality in South Africa
Maboshe, Mashekwa; Woolard, Ingrid - 2018
, that direct taxes and cash transfers are overall progressive and reduce inequality and poverty. Our disaggregated analyses …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011883375
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Tax financing options for new social protection instruments : the equity implications of taxing more to expand the South African social security system
Goldman, Maya; Hlela, Ntuthuko - 2024
In this paper, we use a static fiscal incidence analysis model to evaluate the poverty and inequality impacts of using … substantially reduce poverty and inequality to varying degrees depending on the taxes and transfers used. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015062507
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Households' income and the cushioning effect of fiscal policy measures during the Great Lockdown
Almeida, Vanda; Barrios Cobos, Salvador; Christl, Michael; … - 2020
interventions are therefore seen as instrumental in cushioning against the impact of the crisis on inequality and poverty. Finally …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012263176
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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 … targeted at the rich. While fiscal policy always reduces inequality, this is not the case with poverty. Fiscal policy increases …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011580618
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Inequality and fiscal redistribution in Mexico : 1992-2015
Scott, John; Rosa, Enrique de la; Balcazar, Rodrigo Aranda - 2017
This paper uses income and expenditure surveys from 1992 to 2014 and public tax and spending accounts to estimate the redistributive impact of Mexico's fiscal system over this period. It presents standard and marginal benefit incidence analysis for the principal public transfers (education,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011776401
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Fiscal policy, income redistribution, and poverty reduction in Latin America
Lustig, Nora; Martinez Pabon, Valentina; Pessino, Carola - 2023
heterogeneity in the income inequality and poverty-reducing power of LAC fiscal systems. While all LAC fiscal systems reduce income … inequality, fiscal systems in nine LAC countries are poverty-increasing, and this startling characteristic has not improved over …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014546273
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Fiscal incidence on the island : Grenada's fiscal system and its incidence
Canavire-Bacarreza, Gustavo; Gómez Aliaga, Guillermo; … - 2024
of fiscal policy interventions on inequality and poverty. Specifically, we analyze the distributional incidence of direct …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014486374
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The short-term distributional impact of COVID-19 in Malawi
Magalasi, Chimwemwe - 2021
of changes in employment due to the COVID-19 crisis on inequality and poverty using the recently developed tax … measured by headcount and poverty gap increases because of the COVID-19 outbreak. The pandemic has also worsened inequality as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012886547
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Measuring Poverty in the Case of Buenos Aires : why time deficits matter
Antonopoulos, Rania; Esquivel, Valeria; Masterson, Thomas; … - 2016
We describe the production of estimates of the Levy Institute Measure of Time and Income Poverty (LIMTIP) for Buenos Aires, Argentina, and use it to analyze the incidence of time and income poverty. We find high numbers of hidden poor-those who are not poor according to the official measure but...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011459024