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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Doumbia, Djeneba
Other Authors: Kinda, Tidiane
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2019.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2019/188
Online Access:Full text available on IMF