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China enacted a rural tax reform – the "Tax-for-Fee Reform" (TFR) – in the late 1990s. A crucial but unanswered question is whether this reform improved farmers' welfare in rural areas. This paper uses village-level survey data from the Chinese Household Income Project in order to...
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income inequality during the transition process. The most obvious success story in the process of transition to date has been … only modest increases in inequality. Hence, a detailed analysis of the Polish experience, with a view toward asking what …
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associated with the process of transition has led to substantial increases in inequality, thereby complicating the process of … income inequality in Poland during the transition was actually quite modest. Our analysis indicates that social transfers … played an important role in attenuating the rise in overall income inequality and, by extension, in maintaining the social …
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In recent decades there has been increasing attention for Chinese economic development. There has been a big debate though if its growth is caused by capital accumulation (perspiration factors) or driven by Total Factor Productivity (TFP) growth (inspiration factors). The difference between both...
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the developing world, is insensitive to inequality among the multidimensionally poor individuals and does not consider … inequality sensitive view of multi-dimensional poverty when only ordinal (dichotomized) variables are available. We use such an …, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica, shedding thus some light on gender differences in poverty and inequality in those …
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the developing world, is insensitive to inequality among the multidimensionally poor individuals and does not consider … inequality sensitive view of multi-dimensional poverty when only ordinal (dichotomized) variables are available. We use such an …, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica, shedding thus some light on gender differences in poverty and inequality in those …
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measured by increased in real consumption expenditures. Inequality during 1993-99 improved slightly, but it has remained fairly … stable from the 1950s to the 1990s. There is little or not correlation between growth and inequality, and no strong … correlation between inequality and poverty, and no significant correlation between poverty and race. …
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Income inequality in Colombia has declined since the early 2000s but remains very high by international standards …. Reducing income inequality is a key government objective and this requires improving the performance of the labour market …
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We propose mechanism for implementing a two-stage harmonized Basic Income Guarantee with federal and provincial components. In Stage One, the federal government replaces its refundable and nonrefundable tax credits with an income-tested basic income delivered through the income tax system. The...
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