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Social policies and redistribution in Brazil
Leubolt, Bernhard - 2014
This paper aims at analyzing the contribution of social policies to declining rates of income inequalities in Brazil since the 1990s. Based on a framework of historical institutionalism, Brazil is characterised as a traditionally patrimonial society, marked by the institution of slavery....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010355374
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Social policies and redistribution in South Africa
Leubolt, Bernhard - 2014
This paper aims at analyzing the effects of social policies on income inequalities in South Africa since the 1990s. Based on a framework of historical institutionalism, the heritage of a distributional regime based on institutional racism is highlighted. This had lasting effects on social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010355381
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The end of welfare states as we know them? : a multidimensional perspective
Sowula, Jakub; Gehrig, Franziska; Scruggs, Lyle A.; … - 2023 - Revised in December 2023
This article highlights the limitations of unidimensional analyses in the comparative welfare state literature and emphasises the need for a more holistic, multidimensional approach incorporating social spending, welfare state outputs, and outcomes. To illustrate the utility of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014455386
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What are the poverty and inequality impacts of fiscal policy in Turkey?
Cuevas, P. Facundo; Lucchetti, Leonardo; Nebiler, Metin - 2020
Fiscal policy is central to not only macroeconomic stability and growth, but also to poverty and inequality reduction. This paper provides the most comprehensive assessment of the distributional incidence of Turkey's fiscal policy to date. It analyzes the combined and individual incidence of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012257124
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Inequality and social policy in Latin America
Lustig, Nora - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012390193
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The state and poverty alleviation in advanced capitalist democracies
Moller, Stephanie; Bradley, David; Huber, Evelyne; … - 2001
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013436235
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Trends of poverty and income inequality in cross-national comparison
Ritakallio, Veli-Matti - 2001
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013436238
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Imperfect financial markets and the cyclicality of social spending
Froemel, Maren; Paczos, Wojtek - 2024
This paper explores the link between default risk and fiscal procyclicality. We show that countries with higher sovereign risk have a more procyclical fiscal expenditure policy, which is driven mostly by transfers. We build a small open economy model with income inequality, social transfers, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014490852
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The paradox of redistribution in time : social spending in 53 countries, 1967-2018
Garcia-Fuente, Xabier - 2021
Korpi and Palme (1998) famously suggested the existence of a Paradox of Redistribution:although programs targeted to … harmonized by LIS. My results showthat the relationship between the redistribution obtained by social transfers and their pro … the rich are unable to reachdown the income ladder and remain stuck at very low levels of redistribution.This reflects how …
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