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analyze the impacts on poverty brought on by changes in the food subsidy system in Egypt. The Egypt Integrated Household …
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In this paper, we use consumption dominance curves, a tool developed by Makdissi and Wodon (2002) in order to assess the redistributive impact of electricity subsidies in Guinea. The data in the 'Enquête Intégrée de Base pour l'Évaluation de la Pauvreté (EIBEP) 2002-2003’ show that...
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We present results from a field experiment testing the gift-exchange hypothesis inside a tree-planting firm paying its workforce incentive contracts. Firm managers told a crew of tree planters they would receive a pay raise for one day as a result of a surplus not attribuable to past planting...
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This paper assesses the effects of the changes of the Value Added Tax (VAT) rates in Italy for the period 1988-1997, questioning their overall redistributive impact compared with an equal-revenue proportional tax rate. By using the theory of marginal tax reforms and the AWARETAX microsimulation...
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We compared energy and protein consumption among various Income classes in rural and urban areas of Egypt, The results … urban areas and among income classes. About two-thirds of Egypt's wheat, the country's basic food, is imported and the price … is .heavily subsidized by the Government. Our analysis shows that removing the wheat price subsidy would create a large …
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Mediterranean countries, namely Egypt and Jordan. The paper relies on the general framework proposed by Silber and Yalonetsky (2013 …
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from Egypt and South Africa is proposed using complete and partial bidimensional poverty orderings. JEL classification: D31 …
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multidimensional poverty measures. An application of these measures to compare poverty between Egypt and Tunisia is illustrated using …
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conditions. The empirical investigation covers three countries, Egypt, Morocco and Turkey, and is based on the Demographic and …
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. Applying our measure to Egyptian household budget surveys, we estimate the population size of the middle class in Egypt and … and decline in the size of the middle class since 2005 indicates that the growth process in Egypt was anti-poor and anti …
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