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Fiscal Pressure of Migration and Horizontal Fiscal Inequality: Evidence from Indian ExperienceThis article examines the patterns and trends in inter‐State migration across the Indian States and observes that along with the demographic factors, migration is also affected by the fiscal profile of States...
Migration Inequality DemographySeminar
Charles Gore on Inequality Reduction as a Global Goal: The Nature and Logic of SDG 10Charles Gore presented at the WIDER Seminar Series on 19 June 2019. Abstract – Inequality Reduction as a Global Goal: The Nature and Logic of SDG 10 Presentation slides An important feature of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) agreed as...
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Estimating the scale of profit shifting and tax revenue losses related to foreign direct investmentThis article is currently available for early online view. Governments’ revenues are lower when multinational enterprises avoid paying corporate income tax by shifting their profits to tax havens...
Foreign Direct Investment corporate income tax tax avoidanceJournal Article
Investigating Growing Inequality in MozambiquePart of Journal Special Issue Inequalities in the least developed countries
Inequality Mozambique DecompositionResearch Brief
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Rachel Gisselquist presents in an expert group meeting on inequalityUNU-WIDER Senior Research Fellow Rachel Gisselquist will give a presentation at an expert group meeting ‘ Reducing Inequalities: SDG 10 Progress and Prospects ’, organized by the World Bank and UN DESA in Geneva 2-3 April. The event will...
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Legal Empowerment and Group-Based InequalityPart of Journal Special Issue Legal Empowerment and Group-Based Inequality
Legal empowerment Ethnicity Horizontal inequalityProject
Inequalities - measurement, implications, and influencing change
Theme: Current programme
Inequality Inclusive institutions Data sourcesProject
Varieties of structural transformation
Theme: Current programme
Structural transformation Inclusive growth InequalityWorking Paper
Learning from the ʻbestʼ: The impact of tax-benefit systems in AfricaRedistributive systems in Africa are still in their infancy but are constantly expanding in order to finance increasing public spending...
Tax-benefit microsimulation tax-benefit policy microsimulationPolicy Brief
Inequality in India on the riseFollowing the introduction of economic reforms in the early 1990s, India today is achieving unprecedented per capita growth rates. Poverty reduction has also accelerated and is justly celebrated...
Inequality Decomposition Welfare dynamicsPolicy Brief
Inequality in Mexico: On the rise againSince 1989, inequality in Mexico has risen, declined, and risen again. The evolution of labour income inequality is at the core of this pattern...
Labour income Inequality Top incomesWorking Paper
Inequality trends and dynamics in India: The bird’s-eye and the granular perspectivesIndia today is achieving per capita growth rates that are historically unprecedented. Poverty reduction has also accelerated. There is concern, however, that this growth is being accompanied by rising inequality...
Inequality Decomposition Welfare dynamicsWorking Paper
Inequality in Mexico: Labour markets and fiscal redistribution 1989–2014Income inequality in Mexico increased between 1989 and 1994; between 1994 and 2006, inequality declined; and, between 2006 and 2014, inequality was again on the rise...
Labour income Inequality Top incomesWorking Paper
Intergenerational mobility, human capital accumulation, and growth in IndiaProductivity and socio-economic progress are inter-connected. Economic growth funds policies that promote socio-economic progress, while the latter serves as a growth engine...
Intergenerational Mobility Inequality Growth