Reallocating Public Spending to Reduce Income Inequality : Can It Work? /

Can a government reduce income inequality by changing the composition of public spending while keeping the total level of expenditure fixed? Using newly assembled data on spending composition for 83 countries across all income groups, this paper shows that reallocating spending toward social protect...

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المؤلف الرئيسي: Doumbia, Djeneba
مؤلفون آخرون: Kinda, Tidiane
التنسيق: دورية
اللغة:English
منشور في: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2019.
سلاسل:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2019/188
الوصول للمادة أونلاين:Full text available on IMF