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substantially reduce poverty and inequality to varying degrees depending on the taxes and transfers used. …In this paper, we use a static fiscal incidence analysis model to evaluate the poverty and inequality impacts of using …
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Turkey, driven by social spending on education and health, and complemented by direct taxes and transfer schemes that … countervail the inequality-increasing impact of indirect taxes. At the bottom of the income distribution, targeted transfers are …Fiscal policy is central to not only macroeconomic stability and growth, but also to poverty and inequality reduction …
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the principal public transfers (education, health, social security, direct cash transfers) in 1992-2014, and for the full … transition from large subsidies to taxes on petrol. The analysis shows a continuous improvement in the redistributive effects of … the expansive and progressive trend of social transfers, but especially a sharp decline of net indirect subsidies. …
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taxes (value-added taxes and import duties) and direct fiscal transfers. Although the richest people in Mali and Niger pay … three deciles, respectively). Although existing direct fiscal transfers have poverty-reducing effects, they are too small …This study assesses the redistributive effects of fiscal policy in Mali and Niger. Fiscal policy is poverty increasing …
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transfers. The findings show that the system is progressive and contributes to reductions in poverty and inequality. The Gini … 35 percent of total expenditures in monetary and in-kind transfers is funded by corporate taxes and royalties-which are …This paper uses Mongolia's Household Socio Economic Survey for 2016 to estimate the distributive impact of taxes and …
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speed up the decline in inequality levels and reduce poverty. This study presents an exhaustive and comprehensive analysis … results suggest that the combined effect of taxes and social spending in Colombia contributes to poverty reduction between 0 …Colombia has reduced extreme poverty in the past 16 years by almost half, moderate poverty by 22 percentage points, and …
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