Capacity Building in Fiscal Incidence Analysis : Lessons and Reflections from the Field
Fiscal Incidence Analysis (FIA) is the study of how fiscal policies benefit (or burden, in the case of taxes) people and households at different parts of the income distribution. The objective of this note is to highlight lessons learned in capacit...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
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Washington, DC: World Bank
2022
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099325004012222284/P177543043522a0e0b2110ef2cfeaed803 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/37270 |
| Summary: | Fiscal Incidence Analysis (FIA) is
the study of how fiscal policies benefit (or burden, in the
case of taxes) people and households at different parts of
the income distribution. The objective of this note is to
highlight lessons learned in capacity building and skill
transfer for FIA, including Commitment to Equity (CEQ)
assessment. The goal is to uncover effective strategies for
transferring the skills and capacities to government
officials and other fiscal experts in countries around the
world to enable them to carry out this type of analysis
themselves. The note is based on interviews with experts,
both within and outside of the World Bank who have been
conducting FIA assessments and building and using
microsimulation tools, often in close collaboration with
officials from the government. The rest of this note: (i)
describes the common engagement models and capacity building
approaches that have been taken; (ii) assesses the extent to
which these have been successful and distils lessons learned
from some of these efforts, and (iii) identifies a few
concrete ways in which similar efforts in the future could
be made more effective. |
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