Commitment to Equity Handbook : Estimating the Impact of Fiscal Policy on Inequality and Poverty.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lustig, Nora.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fiscal policy.

Income distribution.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1437 pages)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

Blue Ridge Summit : Brookings Institution Press, 2023.

Summary:

This unique manual provides policymakers, social planners, and economists with salient aspects of fiscal redistribution theory, a step-by-step guide to applying fiscal incidence analysis including the required software, a variety of country studies to illustrate, and data on fiscal redistribution for a large number of countries around the world.

Contents:

Cover

Volume 1

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

List of Illustrations

Foreword

Acknowledgments CEQ Handbook

Abstracts

Introduction

1. About Volume 1: Fiscal Incidence Analysis: Methodology, Implementation, and Applications

2. The Relevance of Fiscal Incidence Analysis in Today’s World

3. Fiscal Incidence in Practice: The Commitment to Equity (CEQ) Assessment©

4. Main Messages

5. Organization of Volume 1

6. Implementing a CEQ Assessment: How to Use Volume 1

7. CEQ Assessment: Data Requirements

8. About Volume 2: Methodological Frontiers in Fiscal Incidence Analysis

9. About the CEQ Institute

10. About the CEQ Data Center on Fiscal Redistribution

Part I. Methodology

Chapter 1. The CEQ Assessment©: Measuring the Impact of Fiscal Policy on Inequality and Poverty

1. The Theory of Fiscal Redistribution: Key Analytical Insights

1.1 The Fundamental Equation of the Redistributive Effect

1.2 Lambert’s Conundrum

1.3 The Wildcard: Reranking of Households

2. Fiscal Incidence Analysis at a Glance

2.1 Allocating Taxes and Transfers to Individuals: The Art of Fiscal Incidence Analysis Generated by AI.

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ISBN:

0-8157-5085-4

0-8157-4047-6

OCLC:

1390560484