budget is greater, their impact is low. The component that has the greatest effect on inequality is spending on education and …We conducted a fiscal impact study to estimate the effect of taxes, social spending, and subsidies on inequality and … health. Therefore, the impact of fiscal policy is limited and low when compared with other countries with a similar level of …

poverty and inequality of Uganda's revenue collection instruments and social spending programs. Fiscal policy – including many … fiscal policy in Uganda is lower than other countries with similar levels of initial inequality, a result tied to low levels … of its constituent tax and spending elements – is inequality-reducing in Uganda, but the reduction of inequality due to …

Using comparable fiscal incidence analysis, this paper examines the impact of fiscal policy on inequality and poverty … direct taxes targeted to the rich. While fiscal policy always reduces inequality, this is not the case with poverty. Fiscal … policy increases poverty in four countries using US$1.25/day PPP poverty line, in 8 countries using US$2.50/day line, and 15 …

Using standard fiscal incidence analysis, this paper estimates the impact of fiscal policy on inequality and poverty in … policy reduces poverty in nine countries. However, in Brazil, Bolivia, Guatemala and Honduras, the incidence of poverty after … taxes, subsidies and transfers (excluding spending on education and health) is higher than market income poverty, even …

disposable income inequality and poverty rose markedly between 2006 and 2009 primarily due to the launching of a noncontributory … on education and health was also sizeable and equalizing, but to a lesser degree. An assessment of fiscal funding sources …

approach to determine the impact and effectiveness of each fiscal intervention, and the fiscal system as a whole, on inequality … by 61 percent. When the monetized value of in-kind benefits in education and health are included, the reduction in … inequality is 0.0919 Gini points. Based on the magnitudes of the marginal contributions, we find that the main driver of these …

We apply a standard tax and benefit incidence analysis to estimate the impact on inequality and poverty of direct taxes …, indirect taxes and subsidies, and social spending (cash and food transfers and in-kind transfers in education and health). The … extent of inequality reduction induced by direct taxes and transfers is rather small (2 percentage points on average …

Inequality in Mexico rose between 1989 and 1994 and declined between 1994 and 2010. We examine the role of market … forces (demand and supply of labour by skill), institutional factors (minimum wages and unionization rate), and public policy … (cash transfers) in explaining changes in inequality. We apply the "re-centered influence function" method to decompose …

statistically significant and robust to changes in the time interval, inequality measures, and data sources. In-depth country …