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Sharing the Growth Dividend : Analysis of Inequality in Asia

Jain-Chandra, Sonali - 2016

This paper focusses on income inequality in Asia, its drivers and policies to combat it. It finds that income inequality has risen in most of Asia, in contrast to many regions. While in the past, rapid growth in Asia has come with equitable distribution of the gains, more recently fast-growing...

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The Macroeconomic and Distributional Implications of Fiscal Consolidations in Low-Income Countries

Peralta-Alva, Adrian - 2018

We quantitatively investigate the macroeconomic and distributional impacts of fiscal consolidations in low-income countries (LICs) through value added tax (VAT), personal income tax (PIT), and corporate income tax (CIT). We extend the standard heterogeneous agents incomplete markets model by...

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Inequality in China - Trends, Drivers and Policy Remedies

Jain-Chandra, Sonali - 2018

China has experienced rapid economic growth over the past two decades and is on the brink of eradicating poverty. However, income inequality increased sharply from the early 1980s and rendered China among the most unequal countries in the world. This trend has started to reverse as China has...

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COVID-19 and (gender) inequality in income : the impact of discretionary policy measures in Austria

Christl, Michael; De Poli, Silvia; Kucsera, Dénes; … - In: Swiss journal of economics and statistics 158 (2022) 1, pp. 1-17

This paper analyzes the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on household income in Austria, using detailed administrative labor market data, in combination with micro-simulation techniques that enable specific labor market transitions to be modeled. We find that discretionary fiscal policy measures in...

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Fiscal Policy, Inequality and the Poor in the Developing World

Lustig, Nora - 2017

Using comparable fiscal incidence analysis, this paper examines the impact of fiscal policy on inequality and poverty in twenty-five countries for around 2010. Success in fiscal redistribution is driven primarily by redistributive effort (share of social spending to GDP in each country) and the...

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Taxation, Inequality and Fiscal Contracting in the Americas

Bird, Richard M.; Zolt, Eric M. - 2013

Since 2000, Latin America has become less unequal, with lower levels of poverty, and likely greater economic mobility. Over a longer time period, the story in the United States is much different. The United States has become more unequal, with relatively high poverty levels, and likely less...

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Fiscal incidence on the island : Grenada's fiscal system and its incidence

Canavire-Bacarreza, Gustavo; Gómez Aliaga, Guillermo; … - 2024

This paper examines the distributional effects of fiscal policy in Grenada. Using data from the 2017-2018 Living Conditions and Household Budgets Survey and following the Commitment to Equity (CEQ) analysis framework, we estimate the effects of fiscal policy interventions on inequality and...

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Fiscal sources and the distribution of income in Italy : the Italian Historical Taxpayers' Database

Gabbuti, Giacomo - 2023 - This draft: May 15, 2023

This paper documents the ongoing construction of the Italian Historical Taxpayers' Database (IHTD), currently consisting of 1,593,563 micro-records of income declarations filed by Italian autonomous workers in 1889, 1922 and 1933. Such a database results from the digitisation of a so far...

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Income and beyond: multidimensional poverty in six Latin American countries

Battiston, Diego; Cruces, Guillermo; López-Calva, Luis F. - 2009

, Chile, El Salvador, Mexico and Uruguay, for the period 19922006. Six dimensions are analysed: income, child attendance at … and Mexico together with rural areas of Chile display significantly higher and more simultaneous deprivations than urban … school, education of the household head, sanitation, water and shelter. Over the study period, El Salvador, Brazil, Mexico …

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Money or Kindergarten? Distributive Effects of Cash Versus In-Kind Family Transfers for Young Children

Förster, Michael F.; Verbist, Gerlinde - Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs … - 2012

Public support to families with pre-school children can be in the form of cash benefits (e.g. child allowances) or of “in-kind” support (e.g. care services such as kindergartens). The mix of these support measures varies greatly across OECD countries, from a cash / in-kind composition of...

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