study the relationship between bribe payments, taxes, and firm growth in Uganda for the period 1995-97. Using industry …

inequality and poverty when all taxes and transfers are combined. In comparison with five other countries in Latin America, it … third in terms of overall (including transfers in-kind) inequality reduction effectiveness. Direct taxes are progressive and … indirect taxes are regressive. Social spending on direct transfers, contributory pensions, education and health is quite …

The fact that raising taxes can increase taxed labor supply through income effects is frequently used to justify much … lower measures of the marginal welfare cost of taxes and greater public good provision than indicated by traditional …-and will provide the same result-as long as the income effects of both taxes and public good provision are incorporated in a …

assumption). 3) Planners can differentiate policy instruments (emission taxes or abatement standards) by polluting good, and by … taxes) by personal characteristics, or make them non-linear in individual emissions. Among the author's findings and … or agents pollute or who pays emissions taxes …

-contributory social insurance programs (including "social pensions") and conditional cash transfers has substantially extended the … parallel to the older social insurance system, financed largely out of taxes on formal sector employment, has led to a dual …