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How Redistributive is Fiscal Policy in Latin America?: The Case of Chile and Mexico
Castelletti, Barbara - Centre de développement, Organisation de Coopération … - 2013
This paper looks at the incidence of fiscal policy on the income distribution for Chile and Mexico. Notably by … fiscal policy on reducing income inequality. The contrast between the estimates for Chile and Mexico and the rest of OECD … income inequality reduction and shows how these results differ across countries. Our results for Chile and Mexico suggest …
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Inflation, fiscal policy and inequality : the distributional impact of fiscal measures to compensate for consumer inflation
3000 Amores, Antonio F.; Basso, Henrique S.; Bischl, Simeon - 2023
This paper analyses the distributional impact of high consumer inflation in the euro area and government measures to compensate households in 2022. The study uses the tax-benefit microsimulation model for the European Union (EUROMOD) with microdata as the input - EU statistics on income and...
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The distributional impacts of fiscal policy : the case of the Philippines
Son, Hyun H. - 2022
The distributional impacts of fiscal policies are instrumental in reducing inequality in countries like the Philippines, where inequality has been persistently high. This paper assesses how equitable various taxes and transfers in the Philippines are by deriving the elasticities of Atkinson and...
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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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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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Revisiting the impact of direct taxes and transfers on poverty and inequality in South Africa
Maboshe, Mashekwa; Woolard, Ingrid - 2018
This paper uses a recent household survey and the CEQ framework to revisit and extend previous research on the impact of fiscal policy on income redistribution, and poverty in South Africa. We find, in accordance with previous research, that direct taxes and cash transfers are overall...
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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 fiscal policy to finance expanded social spending in South Africa. We assess three methods to enhance the social protection system's equity objectives: increasing the size...
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The short-term distributional impact of COVID-19 in Malawi
Magalasi, Chimwemwe - 2021
This study analyses the short-term distributional effects of COVID-19 on household incomes in Malawi. Growth is expected to fall due to the pandemic. The Malawi annual gross domestic product growth rate for 2020 has been revised downwards from 5.5% to 1.9%. According to the government of Malawi,...
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Inequality and social discontent : how to address them through public policy : economic report on Central America, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Mexico, and Panama
López Marmolejo, Arnoldo (ed.); Ruiz-Arranz, Marta (ed.) - Inter-American Development Bank - 2020
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The elasticity of taxable income : new data and estimates for South Africa
Kemp, Johannes Hermanus - 2020
The elasticity of taxable income is a key tax policy parameter that plays an important role in the formulation of tax and transfer policy. This paper extends work by Kemp (2019) by using a new panel of individual tax returns and the phenomenon of 'bracket creep' to produce updated estimates of...
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