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The Impact of Taxes and Social Spending on Inequality and Poverty in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Mexico and Peru: A Synthesis of Results
Lustig, Nora; Gray-Molina, George; Higgins, Sean; … - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2012
We apply a standard tax and benefit incidence analysis to estimate the impact on inequality and poverty of direct taxes … extent of inequality reduction induced by direct taxes and transfers is rather small (2 percentage points on average … and Brazil from achieving similar reductions in inequality is not the lack of revenues but the fact that they spend less …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011163079
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Accounting for Heterogeneity in Growth Incidence in Cameroon Using Recentered Influence Function Regression
Essama-Nssah, B.; Saumik, Paul; Bassolé, Léandre - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2013
This paper frames growth incidence analysis within the logic of social impact evaluation understood as an assessment of variations in individual and social outcomes attributable to shocks and policies. It uses recentered influence function (RIF) regression to link the growth incidence curve...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011098377
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The impact of taxes and social spending on inequality and poverty in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Mexico, Peru and Uruguay: An overview
Lustig, Nora; Amábile, Florencia; Bucheli, Marisa; … - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2013
comparable methodology yields the following results. Direct taxes and cash transfers reduce inequality and poverty by nontrivial … at government costs, they reduce inequality in all countries by considerably more than cash transfers, reflecting their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010878122
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Influence functions for distributional statistics
Essama-Nssah, B.; Lambert, Peter J. - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2011
central tendency, inequality and poverty and also measures of the degree of pro-poorness of a shock- or policy-induced change …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010878137