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Commitment to Equity Handbook

Estimating the Impact of Fiscal Policy on Inequality and Poverty

ISBN-13: 9780815732204
Publisher: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
Imprint: BROOKINGS INSTITUTION
Edited by Nora C. Lustig
Price: AUD $142.00
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Local release date: 26/02/2018
Format: Paperback (254.00mm X 178.00mm) 900 pages Weight: 1532g
Categories: Political economy [KCP]

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Google Preview: A how-to guide for assessing the impact of fiscal policy on inequality and poverty Inequality has emerged in recent years as a major topic of economic and political discussion, but it is often unclear whether governments can or should do something about it, and if so, what that something might be. This unique volume, edited by Nora Lustig, an equity expert at Tulane University, helps fill that void. Developed by the Commitment to Equity Institute at Tulane, the book examines both the theory and the practical methods for determining the impact of taxation and public spending on inequality and poverty. It provides a step-by-step guide for policymakers, economists, and social planners when analyzing whether fiscal policy has narrowed or widened inequality. The book also has user-written software for conducting a Commitment to Equity Assessment, along with several country studies of these assessments. In addition to serving as a manual, the book can be used as a stand-alone reference for those interested in the methods for assessing the impact on equity of fiscal policy. It also serves as a textbook for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses on public finance and income distribution.; Nora Lustig is Samuel Z. Stone Professor of Latin American Economics and Director of the Commitment to Equity Institute at Tulane University where she researches the impact of taxation and social spending on inequality and poverty, and the determinants of inequality. Her previous work includes Declining Inequality in Latin America: A Decade of Progress? and Shielding the Poor: Social Protection in the Developing World.; This book is a very much needed and welcome effort in the systematization of techniques and an enormous contribution to the existing body of evidence and knowledge on fiscal incidence."- Jorge Martinez-Vazquez, director, International Center for Public Policy, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University; "I recommend this Handbook to policymakers, social planners, economists and development agencies who are committed to reducing inequality and poverty using fiscal policies. It is a unique manual that explains in details the theory and practice of fiscal incidence analysis. It also makes many new contributions to the measurement of the impact of fiscal policy on inequality and poverty."- Nanak Kakwani, Journal of Economic Inequality; Google Preview content

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