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Could/should Jubilee debt cancellations be reintroduced today?

Hudson, Michael; Goodhart, Charles A. E. - 2018

In this paper the authors recall the history of Jubilee debt cancellations, emphasizing what their social purpose was at that time. They note that it would not be possible to copy that procedure exactly nowadays, primarily because most debt/credit relationships are intermediated via financial...

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Could/should Jubilee debt cancellations be reintroduced today? If not, what alternative measures of debt relief and redistribution might be possible?

Hudson, Michael; Goodhart, Charles A. E. - 2018

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The redistributive impact of taxes and transfers

Joumard, Isabelle; Londoño Vélez, Juliana - 2013

Income inequality in Colombia has declined since the early 2000s but remains very high by international standards …

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Income support to families with children in Spain

Hernández, Adrian; Picos, Fidel - 2021

Families with children receive support from the tax-benefit system to a different extent across countries. In Spain … families with children in Spain. We distinguish between three different forms of income support: (1) benefits aimed to ease the … families with children in Spain is low and mainly concentrated on tax reliefs, which are regressive in absolute terms …

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What kind of EU fiscal capacity? : evidence from a randomized survey experiment in five European countries in times of Corona

Beetsma, Roel; Burgoon, Brian; Nicoli, Francesco; … - 2020

fine in the case of non-compliance. Further, there is broad acceptance of long-run redistribution towards poorer countries …

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Optimal progressivity of personal income tax : a general equilibrium evaluation for Spain

Serrano-Puente, Darío - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 11 (2020) 4, pp. 407-455

Is the Spanish economy positioned at its optimal progressivity level in personal income tax? This article quantifies the aggregate, distributional, and welfare consequences of moving toward such an optimal level. A heterogeneous households general equilibrium model featuring both life cycle and...

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Public External Debt and Investment in Colombia 1994-2007 : Evidence from a Non-Linear Tar Model (Deuda Externa Pública e Inversión en Colombia 1994-2007: Evidencia de un Modelo No...

Salamanca, Andrés - 2009

This document analyzes the relationship between national government external debt and private investment for Colombia …

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Redistribution in the Age of Austerity : Evidence from Europe, 2006-13

Schneider, Markus - 2017

We examine the relationship between changes in a country's public sector fiscal position and inequality at the top and bottom of the income distribution during the age of austerity (2006-13). We use a parametric Lorenz curve model and Gini-like indices of inequality as our measures to assess...

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Redistribution in the age of austerity : evidence from Europe, 2006-13

Schneider, Markus; Kinsella, Stephen; Godin, Antoine - 2015

We examine the relationship between changes in a country’s public sector fiscal position and inequality at the top and bottom of the income distribution during the age of austerity (2006–13). We use a parametric Lorenz curve model and Gini-like indices of inequality as our measures to assess...

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Some macroeconomic consequences of basic income and employment subsidies

Moutos, Thomas; Scarth, William M. - 2003

income redistribution and employment creation. In particular, the introduction of both a guaranteed annual income (basic …

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