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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Auteur principal: Doumbia, Djeneba
Autres auteurs: Kinda, Tidiane
Format: Revue
Langue:English
Publié: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2019.
Collection:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2019/188
Accès en ligne:Full text available on IMF