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This study assesses the redistributive effects of fiscal policy in Mali and Niger. Fiscal policy is poverty increasing in Mali (by 2.4 percentage points) and Niger (2.5 percentage points). This is a result of primarily two factors: indirect taxes (value-added taxes and import duties) and direct...
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This study assesses the redistributive impact of fiscal policy -- including expenditures and taxation -- in the Arab … fiscal programs, the largest reduction is due to public expenditures on the primary education system. Compared with similar …. The large gap between the government's expenditures and revenues helps explain the positive outcomes on poverty and …
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This study analyzes the incidence of public revenues (tax collection) and expenditures (including direct and indirect …
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assess the effects of government taxation and social spending on poverty and inequality in Moldova. The paper presents the …
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medical expenditures and additional years of productive life as taxes dissuade smoking. In several countries, increasing the …
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This paper analyzes whether taxation can be successfully used to reduce the incidence of labor informality and achieve … market and lower productivity. To illustrate the potential role of taxation in achieving a more fair income distribution, the … effects of taxation are seen in the context of the trade-offs between growth, labor formality and equity. The analysis …
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