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‘Delangokubona’ and the distribution of rents and opportunity: An exploration of tensions over race-based policies of redress and redistribution in South AfricaCapital spending on infrastructure presents a significant counter-cyclical tool, however contested it might be in a society as unequal as South Africa...
Redistribution Rents Public infrastructureWorking Paper
Inequality and growth: a review on a great open debate in economicsWhat is the relationship between inequality and growth? This question has occupied and fascinated social scientists for more than a century...
Economic growth Inequality RedistributionBook Chapter
In praise of snapshotsFrom the book: Social mobility in developing countries
Income mobility Redistribution Education policyWorking Paper
Assessing the distributional impact of lowering the value-added tax rate for standard-rated items in Tanzania and options for recouping revenue lossesThis paper explores the distributional impact of lowering the value-added tax rate for standard-rated items in Tanzania Mainland...
Value-added tax Microsimulation RedistributionWorking Paper
Redistribution, inequality, and growth revisited: Comment on 'Redistribution, inequality, and growth: new evidence'An influential paper by Berg et al., ‘Redistribution, inequality, and growth: new evidence’, uses the SWIID data to examine the impact of inequality and redistribution on growth in both developing and developed countries...
Growth Redistribution Inequality
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The Determinants of Redistribution around the WorldThis study re-examines the determinants of redistribution in light of improved data and methods relative to earlier literature...
Cross-country analysis Growth InequalityJournal Article
The National Care System in Uruguay: Who Benefits and Who Pays?Part of Journal Special Issue Welfare and distributive effects of social assistance in the Global South
Childcare Elderly care RedistributionJournal Article
Welfare and Redistributive Effects of Social Assistance in the Global SouthPart of Journal Special Issue Welfare and distributive effects of social assistance in the Global South
Social assistance Social protection PovertyJournal Special Issue
Welfare and distributive effects of social assistance in the Global SouthThis special issue presents an analysis of the recent evolution of social assistance in the developing world, looking at its complex typological configuration...
Welfare Redistribution Global southWorking Paper
Welfare and redistributive effects of social assistance in the Global SouthThis paper presents an analysis of the recent evolution of social assistance in the developing world, looking at its complex typological configuration, which has interlinked with, and partly reflects the complex demographic and epidemiological transi...
Social assistance Social protection PovertyWorking Paper
In praise of snapshotsThe conventional justification for moving from income distribution to intergenerational mobility analysis is that the movie encompasses the snapshot and is normatively superior as the basis for assessing policy...
Income mobility Redistribution Education policyBook Chapter
The State and DevelopmentFrom the book: Asian Transformations
State Democracy RedistributionResearch Brief
Balancing tax collection and equality: The case of value-added tax in South AfricaIn a democratic system, taxation is a critical part of the social contract between the state and its citizens. The tax system can be used to help address the unacceptably high levels of poverty, inequality, and unemployment in South Africa...
Value-added tax Microsimulation RedistributionResearch Brief
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Modelling value-added tax (VAT) in South Africa: Assessing the distributional impact of the recent increase in the VAT rate and options for redress through the benefits systemUsing SAMOD, a tax-benefit microsimulation model for South Africa, this paper examines the joint distributional impact of the increase in the value-added tax (VAT) rate and increases in benefit amounts in 2018...
Value-added tax Microsimulation Redistribution