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Hounsa, Thierry; Coulibaly, Mohamed; Sanoh, Aly - 2019

This study assesses the redistributive effects of fiscal policy in Mali and Niger. Fiscal policy is poverty increasing in Mali (by 2.4 percentage points) and Niger (2.5 percentage points). This is a result of primarily two factors: indirect taxes (value-added taxes and import duties) and direct...

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The distributional impact of tax and benefit systems in six African countries

Gasior, Katrin; Leventi, Chrysa; Noble, Michael; … - 2018

This paper assesses the effects of public policies on income taxes and benefits in six African countries. The comparative analysis focuses on the distribution and composition of incomes and assesses the effect of these policies on inequality and poverty. The results are based on newly developed...

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Chapter 12 Redistribution

Boadway, Robin; Keen, Michael - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 1, (pp. 677-789). 2000

and measurement of, redistribution. Amongst the themes are: the potential usefulness of apparently inefficient policy … instruments in overcoming the self-selection constraints on redistribution and limiting the damage that ill …, while there are circumstances in which redistribution may plausibly generate efficiency gains, the likelihood that some …

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L' ineguale trattamento degli eguali : impatto delle recenti modifiche al sistema tax-benefit in Italia, (the unequal treatment of equals, impact of recent changes to the tax-benef...

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Inequality and Optimal Redistributive Tax and Transfer Policies

Zee, Howell H. - 1999

This paper explores the revenue-raising aspect of progressive taxation and derives, on the basis of a simple model, the optimal degree of tax progressivity where the tax revenue is used exclusively to finance (perfectly) targeted transfers to the poor. The paper shows that not only would it be...

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The Distributional Impact of Taxes and Social Spending in Bulgaria with an Application to Green Fiscal Policies

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This paper uses methods developed by the Commitment to Equity Institute and data from the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions Survey as well as the Household Budget Survey to assess the impact of the fiscal system on poverty and inequality in Bulgaria. This paper presents...

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The Distributional Impact of Taxes and Social Spending in Bulgaria with an Application to Green Fiscal Policies

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Income inequality and redistribution in post-industrial democracies : demographic, economic and political determinants

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Poverty alleviation and the degree of centralisation in European schemes of social assistance

Hölsch, Katja (contributor); Kraus, Margit (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

redistribution than extremely decentralised schemes. However, for systems with a medium degree of centralisation, the hypothesis that …

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Poverty alleviation and the degree of centralization in European schemes of social assistance

Hölsch, Katja; Kraus, Margit - In: Journal of European social policy 14 (2004) 2, pp. 143-164

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