Fiscal policy, inequality, and the poor in the developing world

Nora Lustig

No wp-2016-164, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: NOTE | Revised version August 2017 available. View and download the revised version . Using comparable fiscal incidence analysis, this paper examines the impact of fiscal policy on inequality and poverty in 25 countries for around 2010. Success in fiscal redistribution is driven primarily by redistributive effort (share of social spending to GDP in each country) and the extent to which transfers/subsidies are targeted at the poor and direct taxes targeted at the rich. While fiscal policy always reduces inequality, this is not the case with poverty.

Keywords: Fiscal incidence; Social spending; Inequality; Poverty (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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Working Paper: Fiscal Policy, Inequality and the Poor in the Developing World (2017)
Working Paper: Fiscal policy, inequality and the poor in the developing world (2016)
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