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Trends in top incomes and their taxation in OECD countries

Förster, Michael F.; Llena-Nozal, Ana; Nafilyan, Vahé - 2014

The shares of top income recipients in total pre-tax income have increased in OECD countries in the past three decades, particularly in most of the English-speaking countries but also in some Nordic (from low levels) and Southern European countries. Today, the richest one percent receives...

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Housing, wealth accumulation and wealth distribution : evidence and stylized facts

Causa, Orsetta; Woloszko, Nicolas; Leite, David - 2019

This paper produces new evidence and stylised facts on housing, wealth accumulation and wealth distribution, relying on an in-depth analysis of micro-based data on household wealth across OECD countries. The analysis addresses several questions: i) How is homeownership and housing tenure...

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The efficiency and equity of the tax and transfer system in France

Égert, Balázs - 2013

social and family benefits should be simplified to enhance transparency and consistency. Eliminating schemes that let people …

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Improving the fiscal framework to enhance growth in an era of fiscal consolidation in Slovakia

Klein, Caroline; Price, Robert W.; Wörgötter, Andreas - 2013

The challenge for fiscal policy in Slovakia is to achieve fiscal consolidation in a way which supports the fragile recovery and protects spending on areas which are important for re-embarking on a trajectory of high trend growth and underpinning a catch-up in living standards. While the recently...

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Taxing the rent of non-renewable resource sectors : a theoretical note

Daubanes, Julien; Andrade de Sá, Saraly - 2014

This study analyses the economic rent generated by the exploitation of a non-renewable resource, and the taxation of … they are exploited; the analysis emphasizes the effect of resource taxation on the discouragement to the development of new … reserves. We discuss the limitations of neutral profit-taxation schemes and examine the distortions caused by various resource-taxation …

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Improving taxes and transfers in Australia

Hemmings, Philip J.; Tuske, Annamaria - 2015

reduction. This review particularly recommends shifting away from income taxation to indirect taxation, for instance by raising … reform to vehicle-related taxation. This Working Paper relates to the 2014 OECD Economic Survey of Australia (www.oecd.org/eco/surveys/economic-survey-australia.htm). …

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Analyse de l'impact des politiques fiscales et de protection sociale sur les inégalités et la pauvreté au Togo

Jellema, Jon; Tassot, Caroline - 2018

Le gouvernement togolais a entrepris des réformes importantes après la crise des années 90 dans le but d’améliorer les conditions de vie de la population grâce à des politiques publiques adaptées, notamment à travers la Stratégie de croissance accélérée et de promotion de...

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Boosting investment in Greece

Barkas, Panagiotis; Pisu, Mauro - 2018

Aggregate investment has declined markedly over the crisis and has yet to recover. Reviving domestic and foreign investment is crucial to supporting the economic recovery, deepen Greece’s integration into global value chains and raising living standards. This will hinge primarily on improving...

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Malaysia's economic success story and challenges

Koen, Vincent; Asada, Hidekatsu; Nixon, Stewart; … - 2017

Malaysia has sustained over four decades of rapid, inclusive growth, reducing its dependence on agriculture and commodity exports to become a more diversified, modern and open economy. GDP per capita is now higher than in a number of OECD economies, while poverty and income inequality have...

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Fostering inclusive growth in Malaysia

Nixon, Stewart; Asada, Hidekatsu; Koen, Vincent - 2017

Malaysia has followed a comparatively equitable development path, largely eliminating absolute poverty and greatly reduced ethnic inequality. Income and wealth inequality have gradually declined since the mid-1970s. With the “people economy” at the centre of Malaysia’s ambition to become a...

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