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Strategic redistribution : the political economy of populism in Latin America
Leon, Gabriel - In: European journal of political economy 34 (2014), pp. 39-51
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Consumption and Redistributive Politics : The Effect of Credit and China
Kus, Basak - 2018
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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Market, Government and Malaysia's New Economic Policy
Rasiah, Rajah; Shari, Ishak - 2013
alleviation and redistribution. Even recent efforts to model increasing returns within the framework of new growth theories have … used to demonstrate causation between liberalization, growth, poverty alleviation and redistribution. Using Malaysia as an … example, this paper argues that growth, poverty alleviation and redistribution was achieved in the country through …
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Raising the Social Security Payroll Tax Cap: How Many Workers Would Pay More?
Schmitt, John; Jones, Janelle; Woo, Nicole - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2013
On January 1, the maximum amount of annual earnings subject to the Social Security tax – a.k.a. the payroll tax cap – increased to $113,700. Every year, this cap is adjusted to keep up with inflation. Many Americans are not aware that income above the cap is not taxed by Social Security. In...
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Scrapping the Social Security Payroll Tax Cap: Who Would Pay More?
Schmitt, John; Woo, Nicole; Jones, Janelle - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2014
There is currently $2.7 trillion in the Social Security Trust Fund, held in Treasury bonds. Since the program is currently taking in more revenues (taxes on payroll and benefits as well as interest on the bonds) than it is paying out, the Trust Fund will continue to grow to about $2.9 trillion....
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Financing Agricultural Development: The Political Economy of Public Spending on Agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa
Birner, Regina; Palaniswamy, Nethra - 2006
Acknowledging that the agricultural sector can play an important role as an engine of pro-poor growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, the purpose of this paper is to identify the factors that influence the 'political will' of governments to support this sector. The concept of 'political resources' from...
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Growth, Congestion of Public Goods, and Second-Best Optimal Policy
Piras, Romano - 2004
This paper presents a general equilibrium endogenous growth model in which public spending is divided between public productive services and public consumption. A distinguishing feature of the model is the assumption that both components of public spending can be over used and, thus, congested...
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Study on quality of public finances in support of growth in the mediterranean partner countries of the EU
De Wulf, Luc; Coutinho, Leonor; Sassanpour, Cyrus; … - 2010
, income redistribution and resource allocation. Long-term growth was not usually viewed as an end itself, and fiscal policy …
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Fiscal policy during business cycles in developing countries: The case of Africa
Leibfritz, Willi; Rottmann, Horst - 2013
Fiscal positions of African countries have improved significantly during the past decade. Higher economic growth, better terms of trade, improved donor support notably through debt relief and better control of expenditure contributed to this improvement. But at the same time government revenue...
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Succesful fiscal adjustments: Does choice of fiscal instrument matter?
Holden, Steinar; Midthjell, Nina Larsson - 2013
We examine fiscal adjustment episodes in 24 OECD countries in order to find how austerity affects debt and growth, and whether the choice of fiscal instrument matters for the results. Inuential existing studies argue that spending cuts are more likely to successfully reduce debt and enhance...
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