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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1. Verfasser: Doumbia, Djeneba
Weitere Verfasser: Kinda, Tidiane
Format: Zeitschrift
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2019.
Schriftenreihe:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2019/188
Online Zugang:Full text available on IMF