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The distributional impacts of fiscal policy : the case of the Philippines

Son, Hyun H. - 2022

The distributional impacts of fiscal policies are instrumental in reducing inequality in countries like the Philippines, where inequality has been persistently high. This paper assesses how equitable various taxes and transfers in the Philippines are by deriving the elasticities of Atkinson and...

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Informality, consumption taxes and redistribution

Bachas, Pierre; Gadenne, Lucie; Jensen, Anders - 2020

countries with theory to shed new light on the redistributive potential and optimal design of consumption taxes. It uses the …

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Assessing the Redistributive Effect of Fiscal Policy

Essama-Nssah, Boniface - 2012

Who benefits from public spending? Who bears the burden of taxation? How desirable is the distribution of net benefits from the operation of a tax-benefit system? This paper surveys basic concepts, methods, and modeling approaches commonly used to address these issues in the context of fiscal...

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The budgetary and redistributive impact of pension taxation in the EU : a microsimulation analysis

Ivaškaite-Tamošiune, Viginta; Thiemann, Andreas - 2021

Pension taxation has large budgetary and distributional effects, in particular in the light of ageing societies and the importance of pension benefits in old-age income. This paper investigates the impact of taxing public and mandatory occupational old-age pensions in the EU, focusing on both...

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Mongolia : distributional impact of taxes and transfers

Freije, Samuel; Yang, Judy S. - 2018

(the child money program and the mortgage subsidy) do little redistribution-the latter is actually regressive-but represent …

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Inter- und intragenerative Umverteilung im deutschen Steuer-Transfer-System : langfristige Wirkungen im Lebenszyklus

Arens, Tobias - 2009

- und intragenerativer Umverteilung aus den Bereichen der Bildungsökonomie, der Familienpolitik und der Alterssicherung … Verlagerung von Umverteilung aus dem Steuersystem in die Sozialversicherung geht eine über die Kohorten deutlich sinkende …

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Why does the amount of income redistribution differ between the United States and Europe? : the Janus face of Switzerland

Akkoyunlu, Şule; Neustadt, Ilja; Zweifel, Peter - In: Journal of economics and political economy : JEPE 7 (2020) 1, pp. 1-26

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Growth with redistribution, finally : Regional poverty and inequality in the Philippines, 2000-2018

Capuno, Joseph J. - In: Asia and the global economy : AGE 2 (2022) 2, pp. 1-15

, unlike before, was consistently pro-poor. Moreover, growth and redistribution aligned after 2012 to reduce poverty, whereas …-poor. Finally, the overall trends in the quality of growth and its contribution and that of redistribution to poverty adjustments … poverty reductions, while growth with government-directed redistribution can. …

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Distributional effects of taxation in Latin America

Pessino, Carola; Rasteletti, Alejandro; Artana, Daniel A.; … - 2023

impact is equalizing for direct taxes and unequalizing for indirect taxes. Overall, redistribution through taxes, without … of the corporate income tax contributes to improve redistribution and accounts for better comparison with the …

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Calculating the redistributive impact of pension systems in LAC

Altamirano, Alvaro; Oliveri, María Laura; Bosch, Mariano; … - 2023

This paper examines the implicit subsidies within pension systems across Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region. We first calculate the theoretical benefits of pension for hypothetical workers in 25 countries in LAC. We show that, on average, LAC's pension systems are subsidized, as they...

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