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Can a poverty-reducing and progressive tax and transfer system hurt the poor?
To analyze anti-poverty policies in tandem with the taxes used to pay for them, comparisons of poverty before and after taxes and transfers are often used. We show that these comparisons, as well as measures of horizontal equity and progressivity, can fail to capture an important aspect: that a subs...
Autores principales: | Higgins, Sean, Lustig, Nora |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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North-Holland Pub. Co.]
2016
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4988485/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27594737 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2016.04.001 |
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