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Colombia has reduced extreme poverty in the past 16 years by almost half, moderate poverty by 22 percentage points, and made more than four million Colombians jump the threshold of multidimensional poverty. However, it remains one of the most unequal countries in the region, after Brazil and...
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This paper uses methods developed by the Commitment to Equity Institute and data from the Household Budget Survey to assess the effects of government taxation and social spending on poverty and inequality in Moldova. The paper presents the first detailed distributional analysis of the tax and...
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redistributive impact of Mexico's fiscal system over this period. It presents standard and marginal benefit incidence analysis for …
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The paper employs the Commitment to Equity framework to present a first attempt at a comprehensive fiscal incidence …, decreasing the Gini inequality index by 21 percentage points, and the official measure of poverty incidence by 27.6 percentage …
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This paper proposes an additional extension to the traditional Benefit Incidence Analysis (BIA) that links fiscal … policies with the concept of equality of opportunities. This new approach, “Opportunity Incidence Analysis” (OIA), is then …, opportunities and circumstances can be used to target public spending with higher precision. Third, microsimulations can be used to …
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of fiscal policy interventions on inequality and poverty. Specifically, we analyze the distributional incidence of direct …
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