The Income Lever and the Allocation of Aid

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...

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Main Authors:	Ceriani, Lidia, Verme, Paolo
Format:	Policy Research Working Paper
Language:	en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, D.C. 2013
Subjects:	absolute poverty absolute poverty line absolute terms affluence agricultural development aid effectiveness American Economic Review consumer price developing countries Development Economics Development Goals development indicators development policy Development Report economic development economic growth Economic Management Economics empirical application empirical evidence empirical literature equal countries exchange rate Extreme Poverty Financial Flows fiscal stability global level global poverty growth effect household consumption household size household surveys human rights Income income data income distribution income distributions income levels individual countries inequality Living Conditions low income low income countries low-income countries marginal tax marginal tax rate measurement of poverty micro data middle income middle income countries National Income Policy Research Political Economy political instability poor poor areas poor countries poor individuals poor policies population share poverty eradication poverty gap poverty gap index poverty incidence poverty level poverty line Poverty measurement poverty measures poverty rate poverty rates Poverty Reduction poverty target Public Policy Purchasing Power Purchasing Power Parity Redistribution Policies redistributive policies reducing poverty Regional Competitiveness Regional Development Regional Development Fund regional policies Regional Policy rich countries social funds structural vulnerability targeting taxation Volatility wealth welfare variable World Economy
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