The Income Lever and the Allocation of Aid

Lidia Ceriani () and Paolo Verme

Journal of Development Studies, 2014, vol. 50, issue 11, 1510-1522

Abstract: The article develops a concept and a measure of the monetary capacity of a country to reduce its own poverty and shows how these tools can be used to guide budget allocations or the allocation of aid. The authors call this concept the income lever. Making use of tax and distributive theory, the article shows how different redistributive criteria correspond to the different normative criteria of the income lever. It then constructs various income lever indexes based on these criteria and uses such indexes to rank countries according to their own capacity to reduce poverty.

Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1080/00220388.2014.951037

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