The paper develops a concept and a measure of the monetary capacity of a country to reduce its own poverty and shows how these tools can be used to guide budget allocations or the allocation of aid. The authors call this concept the income lever. Making use of tax and distributive theory, the paper shows how different redistributive criteria correspond to the different normative criteria of the income lever. It then constructs various income lever...
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2013/02/01
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政策研究报告
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WPS6367
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2013/02/21
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Disclosed
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The income lever and the allocation of aid
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poverty in developing country