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Ethnicity is not public service destiny: The political logic of service distribution in South AfricaMillions of South Africans in thousands of demonstrations have protested the unequal allocation of public services...
Public service delivery Ethnicity AfricaResearch Brief
Are credits or deductions better in public health spending?: The impact on equality in South AfricaThe impact of medical deductions and medical credits on income inequality is a subject of discussion in South Africa, as well as in many other countries, raising critical questions about the fairness of the medical tax system and the impact on afford...
Medical tax credit Medical expenses Tax deductionsWorking Paper
Shifting from deductions to credits: Unpacking the distributional effects of medical expenditure considerations in South AfricaThe recent National Health Insurance White Paper proposes redirection of medical tax credits revenue towards the financing of the national health insurance...
Medical tax credit Medical expenses Tax deductionsWorking Paper
Microsimulation of impacts of tax and transfer in Vietnam: Feasibility studyThis paper assesses the feasibility of simulating the distributional impacts produced by various tax and transfer instruments in Vietnam...
Distribution Microeconomics TaxationBook Chapter
Growth and Distributional Aspects of Poverty Reduction in South AfricaDistribution Equality and inequality Poverty
Journal Article
Income Inequality, Redistribution, and Poverty: Contrasting Rational Choice and Behavioral PerspectivesPart of Journal Special Issue Poverty, Development, and Behavioral Economics
Distribution Equality and inequality Income distributionWorking Paper
Pro-poor Service Delivery and Social IdentityIndia addressed the requirement for pro-poor service delivery in rural regions by introducing decentralization and affirmative action policies...
Distribution Economic development Government policy (Poor)Working Paper
Income Inequality, Redistribution and Poverty: Contrasting Rational Choice and Behavioural PerspectivesBased on the standard axiom of individual utility maximization, rational choice has postulated that higher income inequality translates into greater redistribution by shaping the median voter’s preferences...
Distribution Equality and inequality Income distributionJournal Article
The (evolving) role of agriculture in poverty reduction—An empirical perspectiveThe role of agriculture in development remains much debated. This paper takes an empirical perspective and focuses on poverty, as opposed to growth alone...
Distribution Econometric models (Economic development) Panel analysisBlog
From the Editor's desk (October 2011)
Tony Addison As autumn moves into winter in Helsinki, it is time to bring you the October edition of UNU-WIDER’s newsletter, WIDER Angle...
Consumption Democracy DistributionWorking Paper
The (Evolving) Role of Agriculture in Poverty ReductionThe role of agriculture in development remains much debated. This paper takes an empirical perspective and focuses on poverty, as opposed to growth alone...
Distribution Econometric models (Economic development) Panel analysisBook Chapter
Measuring Pro-poor Growth in Progress Toward Non-income Millennium Development Goal TargetsFrom the book: Achieving the Millennium Development Goals
Distribution Economic development PovertyJournal Article
Estimating Income Inequality in China Using Grouped Data and the Generalised Beta DistributionPart of Journal Special Issue Inequality and Poverty in China
Distribution Equality and inequality Income distributionWorking Paper
Estimating Income Inequality in China Using Grouped Data and the Generalized Beta DistributionThere are two main types of data sources of income distributions in China: household survey data and grouped data. Household survey data are typically available for isolated years and individual provinces...
Distribution Equality and inequality Income distributionWorking Paper
Measuring Pro-Poor Progress towards the Non-Income Millennium Development GoalsIn order to track progress in MDG1 and explicitly link growth, inequality, and poverty reduction, several measures of ‘pro-poor growth’ have been proposed in the literature and used in applied academic and policy work...
Distribution Economic development Poverty