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fact become a very weak one. For what it matters, targeting tends to be associated with higher levels of redistribution …There is a long-standing controversy over the question of whether targeting social transfers towards the bottom part of … claimed that "the more we target benefits at the poor, the less likely we are to reduce poverty and inequality". The basic …
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fact become a very weak one. For what it matters, targeting tends to be associated with higher levels of redistribution …There is a long-standing controversy over the question of whether targeting social transfers towards the bottom part of … claimed that the more we target benefits at the poor, the less likely we are to reduce poverty and inequality. The basic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319431
citizens’ support for the market by guaranteeing income redistribution to inequality-averse agents. Our identification strategy … face the same level of market development and economic inequality, as well as the same historically inherited politico …-economic culture. Democratic rights increase popular support for the market. This is true, in particular, of inequality-averse agents …
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In this paper, we study the role of price correction in estimating the impact of price subsidies and anti-poverty cash transfer schemes on poverty in Tunisia. Three types of price corrections are considered: (a) no corrections; (b) living standards deflated by spatial Laspeyres price indices;...
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corruption perceptions, and preferences for redistribution in Latin America. Our empirical study is guided by a theoretical model … model perceived corruption influences people's preferences for redistribution through two channels. On the one hand it … undermines trust in government, which reduces people's support for redistribution. On the other hand, more corruption decreases …
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mechanisms moderated the effects of income inequality and suppressed public discontent with increasing income inequality, thereby … lessening the political urgency of redistribution …
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corruption perceptions, and preferences for redistribution in Latin America. Our empirical study is guided by a theoretical model … model perceived corruption influences people's preferences for redistribution through two channels. On the one hand it … undermines trust in government, which reduces people's support for redistribution. On the other hand, more corruption decreases …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011672894
distributed across European countries, due to differences in economic structures and in the social preference for redistribution …
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We study the politics of intergenerational redistribution in an overlapping-generations model with short …
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Despite repeated policy initiatives from donors and governments, the human and economic cost of continued lack of access to safe water and sanitation in sub-Saharan Africa remains high. This paper shows that a radical reorientation of policy is needed to achieve a significant increase in...
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