Community-based targeting mechanisms for social safety nets: A critical review

J Conning, M Kevane - World development, 2002 - Elsevier
This paper interprets case studies and theory on community involvement in beneficiary
selection and benefit delivery for social safety nets. Several considerations should be …

Post-1970 trends in within-country inequality and poverty: rich and middle-income countries

S Morelli, T Smeeding, J Thompson - Handbook of income distribution, 2015 - Elsevier
Like the other chapters in this volume of the Handbook of Income Distribution (and its
predecessor), the aim of this chapter is to provide a comprehensive review of a particular …

Welfare resilience at the onset of the COVID‐19 pandemic in a selection of European countries: Impact on public finance and household incomes

O Cantó, F Figari, CV Fiorio, S Kuypers… - Review of Income …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
This paper assesses the impact on household incomes of the COVID‐19 pandemic and
governments' policy responses in April 2020 in four large and severely hit EU countries …

[图书][B] The modern VAT

MLP Ebrill, MM Keen, MVP Perry - 2001 - books.google.com
Value-added tax, or VAT, first introduced less than 50 years ago, is now a pivotal component
of tax systems around the world. The rapid and seemingly irresistible rise of the VAT is …

[图书][B] Income inequality and fiscal policy

MD Coady, MS Gupta - 2012 - books.google.com
Page 1 IMF STAFF DISCUSSION NOTE June 28, 2012 SDN/12/08 Income Inequality and Fiscal
Policy Francesca Bastagli, David Coady, and Sanjeev Gupta INTERNATIONAL MONETARY …

Income redistribution through taxes and transfers across OECD countries

O Causa, M Hermansen - 2017 - oecd-ilibrary.org
This paper produces a comprehensive assessment of income redistribution to the working-
age population, covering OECD countries over the last two decades. Redistribution is …

Welfare resilience in the immediate aftermath of the COVID-19 outbreak in Italy

F Figari, C Fiorio - Covid Economics, 2020 - air.unimi.it
This paper analyses the extent to which the Italian welfare system provides monetary
compensation for those who lost their earnings due to the lockdown imposed by the …

Explaining the welfare state: power resources vs. the Quality of Government

B Rothstein, M Samanni, J Teorell - European Political Science …, 2012 - cambridge.org
The hitherto most successful theory explaining why similar industrialized market economies
have developed such varying systems for social protection is the Power Resource Theory …

Inequality and media capture

M Petrova - Journal of public Economics, 2008 - Elsevier
Popular support of redistributive policies depends on information they have about the tax
system and efficiency of public projects. Mass media provides a convenient means for …

Income inequality in richer and OECD countries

A Brandolini, TM Smeeding - 2011 - academic.oup.com
Many different variables can be used to evaluate the distribution of living standards in a
society. These focal variables include monetary indicators, such as expenditure, income …