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The distributional impacts of capital controls

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Fractal inequality in rural India : class, caste and jati in Bihar

Joshi, Shareen; Kochhar, Nishtha; Rao, Vijayendra - In: Oxford open economics 1 (2022), pp. 1-29

That inequality varies within and between groups is well understood. We explore how inequality can also be "fractal … inequality. Caste is generally analysed with government-defined "broad" categories, such as Scheduled Caste (SC). In everyday … life, however, caste is experienced as "jati", a local system of stratification. We explore expenditure inequality at the …

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Informality, consumption taxes and redistribution

Bachas, Pierre; Gadenne, Lucie; Jensen, Anders - 2022

Can taxes on consumption redistribute in developing countries? Contrary to consensus, we show that taxing consumption is progressive once we account for informal consumption. Using household expenditure surveys in 32 countries we proxy for informal consumption using the type of store where...

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