The Welfare Effects of Public Expenditure Programs Reconsidered.

The paper proposes a new welfare-based measure to evaluate the distributive effects of public programs. The proposed measure differs from traditional approaches in two important ways: first, it is based on life-cycle considerations, since most public expenditure programs have an intertemporal object...

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Collectivité auteur: International Monetary Fund
Format: Revue
Langue:English
Publié: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1989.
Collection:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1989/062
Accès en ligne:Full text available on IMF