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Benefitting from globalisation and technological change in Australia
Sila, Urban; Hemmings, Philip J. - 2019
Australia has seen large rises in living standards over the last decades across the whole of the income distribution …. This paper focuses on policies to ensure that everyone in Australia has the opportunity to benefit from technological …, ensuring that Australia's highly urbanised population can adapt to change. …
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Indigenous economic development strategy 2011 - 2018
2011
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Budget : investing to close the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians
Macklin, Jenny (contributor) - 2011
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Sharing the fruits of growth with all Mexicans
Olaberriá, Eduardo; Dugain, Valéry - 2015
In 2013 the Mexican government embarked on a major reform agenda which, if fully implemented and pushed forward, will help Mexico break out from a recent history of economic stagnation and high levels of poverty and inequality that has hampered the quality of life of its citizens. Indeed,...
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Making growth more inclusive in Costa Rica
González Pandiella, Alberto - 2016
In the past 30 years Costa Rica has grown steadily and social indicators have improved markedly. Well-being indicators are comparable or even above the OECD average in several dimensions, such as health, environment or life-satisfaction. This paper reviews the social progress that Costa Rica has...
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The effect of the size and the mix of public spending on growth and inequality
Fournier, Jean-Marc; Johansson, Åsa - 2016
This paper provides evidence on the effects of the size and the composition of public spending on long-term growth and inequality. An estimated baseline convergence model captures the long-term effect of human capital and total investment on potential output for a panel of OECD countries. The...
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Public finance, economic growth and inequality : a survey of the evidence
Johansson, Åsa - 2016
This paper reviews the key issues concerning the impact of public spending and taxation on long-run growth and inequality and takes stock of existing theoretical and empirical studies. Overall, the evidence highlights that the size of the government matters for long-term growth as a too large...
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The effects of the tax mix on inequality and growth
Akgun, Oguzhan; Cournède, Boris; Fournier, Jean-Marc - 2017
Can reforms that shift the balance among different taxes in the revenue mix lastingly influence the overall prosperity of an economy and the distribution of income across households? The present study takes this question to the data, using the experience of 34 OECD countries over 1980-2014 to...
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Policies for inclusive and sustainable growth in Indonesia
Vujanovic, Petar - 2015
Indonesia has a very good record of poverty reduction, having halved its incidence over the past two decades. Nevertheless, almost 30 million people still live below the national poverty line, mostly in rural areas and in certain provinces. In order to make further progress in lifting these...
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