LEADER 06086oam 22008534 450 001 9910815435303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-5135-4407-1 010 $a1-5135-3868-3 035 $a(CKB)3820000000019214 035 $a(EBL)4395556 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4395556 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4395556 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11203940 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL840629 035 $a(OCoLC)925286370 035 $a(IMF)IRFPEA 035 $a(EXLCZ)993820000000019214 100 $a20020129d2015 uf 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aInequality and Fiscal Policy /$fBenedict Clements, Ruud A. Mooij, Sanjeev Gupta, Michael Keen 210 1$aWashington, D.C. :$cInternational Monetary Fund,$d2015. 215 $a1 online resource (450 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-5135-3162-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. 327 $aCover; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; PART I: TRENDS IN INCOME INEQUALITY AND THE REDISTRIBUTIVE ROLE OF FISCAL POLICY; 1 Fiscal Policy and Income Inequality: An Overview; 2 The IMF and Income Distribution; 3 Inequality and Fiscal Redistribution in Advanced Economies; 4 Fiscal Redistribution in Developing Countries: Overview of Policy Issues and Options; 5 Poverty and Distribution: Thirty Years Ago and Now; PART II: ALTERNATIVE MEASURES OF INEQUALITY AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS FOR FISCAL POLICY; 6 Functional Income Distribution and Its Role in Explaining Inequality 327 $a7 The Wealth of Nations: Stylized Facts and Options for TaxationPART III: FISCAL CONSOLIDATION AND INCOME INEQUALITY; 8 Fiscal Consolidation and Inequality in Advanced Economies: How Robust Is the Link?; 9 Fiscal Consolidation and Income Inequality; PART IV: TAX POLICY AND INEQUALITY; 10 International Corporate Tax Spillovers and Redistributive Policies in Developing Countries; 11 Taxing Immovable Property: Revenue Potential and Implementation Challenges; 12 Targeting and Indirect Tax Design; 13 Carbon Tax Burdens on Low-Income Households: A Reason for Delaying Climate Policy? 327 $aPART V: EXPENDITURE POLICY AND INEQUALITY14 The Unequal Benefits of Fuel Subsidies Revisited: Evidence for Developing Countries; 15 Equity Considerations in the Design of Public Pension Systems; 16 The Redistributive Impact of Government Spending on Education and Health: Evidence from Thirteen Developing Countries in the Commitment to Equity Project; 17 Income Inequality, Fiscal Decentralization, and Transfer Dependency; PART VI COUNTRY CASE STUDIES; 18 Reinventing the Dutch Tax-Benefit System: Exploring the Frontier of the Equity-Efficiency Trade-Off 327 $a19 Growing (Un)equal: Fiscal Policy and Income Inequality in China and BRIC+20 The Quest for the Holy Grail: Efficient and Equitable Fiscal Consolidation in India; 21 A Path to Equitable Fiscal Consolidation in the Republic of Congo; 22 Fiscal Adjustment and Income Inequality in Brazilian States; Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W 330 3 $aThe sizeable increase in income inequality experienced in advanced economies and many parts of the world since the 1990s and the severe consequences of the global economic and financial crisis have brought distributional issues to the top of the policy agenda. The challenge for many governments is to address concerns over rising inequality while simultaneously promoting economic efficiency and more robust economic growth. The book delves into this discussion by analyzing fiscal policy and its link with inequality. Fiscal policy is the government?s most powerful tool for addressing inequality. It affects households ?consumption directly (through taxes and transfers) and indirectly (via incentives for work and production and the provision of public goods and individual services such as education and health). An important message of the book is that growth and equity are not necessarily at odds; with the appropriate mix of policy instruments and careful policy design, countries can in many cases achieve better distributional outcomes and improve economic efficiency. Country studies (on the Netherlands, China, India, Republic of Congo, and Brazil) demonstrate the diversity of challenges across countries and their differing capacity to use fiscal policy for redistribution. 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