Between-Group Transfers and Poverty-Reducing Tax Reforms?

Paul Makdissi () and Stéphane Mussard

No 0801E, Working Papers from University of Ottawa, Department of Economics

Abstract: In this paper, we propose the conception of Within-group Consumption-Dominance Curves in order to capture the impact of indirect tax reforms on poverty. Considering that the population is partitioned into many groups, which differ in needs, in health, in capability or other attributes, we introduce within-group transfers and between-group transfers via indirect taxation mechanisms in order to reduce the poverty for the entire population and the poverty in particular population sub-groups. We show that these taxation schemes are useful for many reasons: there is no need to estimate demand functions; the tax reforms are robust over a large range of poverty indices; the methodology relies on a stochastic dominance approach.

Keywords: Between-group redistribution; Poverty; Restricted stochastic dominance; Tax reforms. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D63 H20 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 18 pages
Date: 2008
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