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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Income Redistribution"”.
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Tax Incidence and Income Redistribution in West Malaysia
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Aspects of South African state welfare policy : a study in public finance and income redistribution
International redistribution studies vary in scope from those which investigate the full range of all benefits and costs of the fiscal system to others restricting their coverage to the distributive impact of a single expenditure or tax. In South Africa relatively little research has been directed …
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Social accounting matrice and computable general equilibrium modelling in South Africa with reference to the financial sector
… policies to redress the unequal distribution of income and wealth. In many other developing countries, a similar challenge has led to the use of Social Accounting Matrices (SAMs) and Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) models to give quantitative support in the formulation of income …
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Motivational Strategies, Conditional Welfare and Distributive Justice
… schemes, in particular, in the case of income redistribution policies and the provision of essential services. I intend to show that negative inducements can have some advantages with reference to other motivational instruments. For example, negative inducements are often the main …
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Three Essays in Urban and Public Economics
… The second part addresses the issue of income redistribution when there is no accurate information on individuals' income levels. In this context, the government may find it optimal to publicly provide certain goods and services that have private substitutes in addition to in-cash …
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Income redistributive effect of health care financing in Zambia
… health outcomes globally. However, most low income countries and in particular those in sub-Saharan Africa which have borne the greater share of global disease burden have had relatively lesser success in their endeavours to improve their health care financing systems. It is only a few that …
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Economic effects of fuel subsidy in oil producing countries : the case of Nigeria
… inefficiency of fuel subsidy as a mechanism for income redistribution. Using the Input-Output and SAM multiplier approach, I study the effect of reducing gasoline subsidy as implemented in January 2012 on sectorial outputs, household expenditure and government spending under two scenarios. When …
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Food security in less developed countries: assessing the effects of food aid in rural Kenya as a food supply shock on consumption and nutrition
… to serve developmental purposes, such as income redistribution or provision of food as a real resource. Food-for-Work (FFW), as a specific form of food aid programs, represents a short-run food supply shock in the market environment of the recipient country's economy, since it is used as a …
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Regulation as a Redistributive Policy: A Political Economy Approach
… explained the use of these tools is driven by income inequality rather than the poverty rate. In contrast, I study the effect of the size of the poor on the choice of the mix of regulation and other traditional forms of redistributive policy. I begin by showing that the poor are better …
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Optimal Taxation and Innovation in the Presence of Externalities
… explores the effects of externalities on optimal income taxation and innovation. On the one hand, governments’ income redistribution policies among households affect pollution since households are different in terms of how much they pollute. This affects the design of an optimal income tax …
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Essays on Taxation and Fiscal Policy
… are credit-constrained suggesting evidence of income redistribution. Finally, we find that macroeconomic analyses are considerably different when the tax structure is progressive compared to flat thereby having several policy implications for developing countries.Lastly, in the third chapter, …
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Essays on the Political Economy of Redistributive and Allocation Policies in Competitive Democracies
… investigates the political incentives for redistribution of income and allocation policies in competitive democracies. In Chapter 2, I examine incentives for political redistribution through in-kind transfers. By analyzing the political game between office-motivated politicians and …
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Essays on fiscal policy and income inequality
… of economic growth in developing economies is income inequality. Thus many studies in macroeconomic theory have attempted to determine what are the main ways in which inequality can be reduced. Redistributive fiscal policy has been considered an important way to reduce inequality and increase …
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Cooperating As Peers: Labor Justice Between Distributive and Relational Equality
… cannot be met by free occupational choice or income redistribution alone, but relate also to social relationships, decision-making processes, and the nature of tasks and occupations, the thesis advocates a multidimensional conception of labor justice. Contributive parity requires that in order …
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Bridging the urban energy divide: equity-focused transition pathways for sub-Saharan African cities
… equitable energy access and use across different income groups, while meeting other development and sustainability goals. Through detailed analysis of six cities - ranging from metropolitan centres to smaller towns - the research provides new insights into the patterns and drivers of energy …
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Social security law and policy reform in Tanzania with reflections on the south African experience.
… deficient use of solidarity principles such as income redistribution and intragenerational and intergenerational equity. The study recommends clear recognition of these factors if adequacy of benefits is to be guaranteed in social security provisioning. Besides this, the study emphasises the …
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The effects of Conditional Cash Transfer programs on Latin American presidential elections
In the late 1990s and 2000s, a new kind of social policy spread through Latin American countries. Nearly all of them currently invest in Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programs, i.e. programs that pay cash to poor families and impose health and education conditionalities on their children. …
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Empirical studies in public economics in developing countries
… The evidence is that wives' education and income have a significant positive effect on transfers to their parents, and no effect on transfers to their husbands' parents. In addition, women who are gainfully employed and who have greater dowries from the time of their marriage are more …