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Explaining Low Redistributive Impact in Bolivia

Arauco, Verónica Paz; Molina, George Gray; Aguilar, … - In: Public Finance Review 42 (2014) 3, pp. 326-345

This article analyzes the fiscal incidence of cash and in-kind transfers, taxes, and subsidies in Bolivia. Between 2007 …

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Buying turnout or rewarding loyalists? Electoral mobilization and EU structural funding in the German Länder

Schraff, Dominik - In: European Union Politics 15 (2014) 2, pp. 277-288

This research note elaborates on the role of electoral mobilization in the allocation of EU structural funding. Revising current findings on the German Länder, I show that stronghold regions with a high level of electoral mobilization receive more money. This strategy is conceptualized as...

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Participatory Economic Democracy in Action

Marquetti, Adalmir; Silva, Carlos E. Schonerwald da; … - In: Review of Radical Political Economics 44 (2012) 1, pp. 62-81

in participatory economic democracy: participation, the nature of choices, and the resulting redistribution. A third part …

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Indian economy: yesterday, today and tomorrow

Panagariya, Arvind - Palgrave Macmillan

This article offers an analytic overview of India's achievements to date, what its future prospects are, what its rise means to the global economy in the next fifteen years and what challenges India faces in terms of future reforms. The article begins by presenting a summary of the country's...

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Redistribution, Inequality, and Growth

Ostry, Jonathan David; Berg, Andrew; Tsangarides, … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2014

the previous SDN on inequality and growth by focusing on the role of redistribution. It finds that, from the perspective … of the best available macroeconomic data, there is not a lot of evidence that redistribution has in fact undercut … is a big tradeoff between redistribution and growth. The best available macroeconomic data do not support such a …

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Information, mobilization, and demand for redistribution: A survey experiment in South Africa

Pellicer, Miquel; Piraino, Patrizio; Wegner, Eva - Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit … - 2014

redistribution. Previous literature has found that providing information on inequality raises concerns about inequality but need not … political behavior regarding demand for redistribution. We operationalize mobilization from an individual perspective as the … support for redistribution via video messages of South African leaders. Consistent with previous literature, we find that pure …

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Baumol’s cost disease and the sustainability of the welfare state

Andersen, Torben M; Kreiner, Claus Thustrup - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

If productivity increases more slowly for services than for manufactured goods, then services suffer from Baumol’s cost disease and tend to become relatively more costly over time. Since the welfare state in all countries is an important supplier of tax financed services, this translates into...

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Public Debt and Redistribution with Borrowing Constraints

Bilbiie, Florin Ovidiu; Monacelli, Tommaso; Perotti, Roberto - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

, however, zero. With sticky prices, Ricardian equivalence always fails. A Robin-Hood, revenue-neutral redistribution to …

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Price Level Changes and the Redistribution of Nominal Wealth Across the Euro Area

Adam, Klaus; Zhu, Junyi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

We document the presence of sizable distributional effects from unexpected price level movements in the Euro Area (EA) using sectoral accounts and newly available data from the Household Finance and Consumption Survey. The EA as a whole is a net winner of unexpected price level increases, with...

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Partisan Tax Policy and Income Inequality in the U.S., 1979-2007

Bargain, Olivier; Dolls, Mathias; Immervoll, Herwig; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

We assess the effects of U.S. tax policy reforms on inequality by applying a new decomposition method that allows us to disentangle the direct policy effect from the effect of changing market incomes. Over the whole period 1979-2007 the cumulative tax policy effect aggravated income inequality...

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