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This study assesses the redistributive effects of fiscal policy in Mali and Niger. Fiscal policy is poverty increasing in Mali (by 2.4 percentage points) and Niger (2.5 percentage points). This is a result of primarily two factors: indirect taxes (value-added taxes and import duties) and direct...
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speed up the decline in inequality levels and reduce poverty. This study presents an exhaustive and comprehensive analysis …
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, decreasing the Gini inequality index by 21 percentage points, and the official measure of poverty incidence by 27.6 percentage …
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Fiscal policy is central to not only macroeconomic stability and growth, but also to poverty and inequality reduction … Turkey's achievements against peer countries. The results show that fiscal policy significantly reduces income inequality in … countervail the inequality-increasing impact of indirect taxes. At the bottom of the income distribution, targeted transfers are …
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inequality, with government expenditures in the form of in-kind transfers leading to the largest decreases. While expenditures in …
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