Poverty-Reducing Tax Reforms with Heterogeneous Agents

Paul Makdissi (), Jean-Yves Duclos and Quentin Wodon

Cahiers de recherche from Departement d'économique de l'École de gestion à l'Université de Sherbrooke

Abstract: The poverty impact of indirect tax reforms is analyzed using sequential stochastic dominance methods. This allows agents to differ in dimensions that cannot always be precisely captured within the usual money-metric indicators of living standards. Examples of such dimensions include household size and composition, temporal or spatial variation in price indices, and individual needs and ``merits''.

Keywords: Poverty; Efficiency; Tax Reform; Stochastic Dominance; Equivalence scales (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D12 D63 H21 I32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 15 pages
Date: 2002, Revised 2003
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Journal Article: Poverty‐Reducing Tax Reforms with Heterogeneous Agents (2005)
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