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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Автор: Doumbia, Djeneba
Інші автори: Kinda, Tidiane
Формат: Журнал
Мова:English
Опубліковано: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2019.
Серія:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2019/188
Онлайн доступ:Full text available on IMF