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APPENDIX I Incidence Analyses and Income Redistribution »
Source: Fund-Supported Programs, Fiscal Policy, and Income Distribution
Series: Occasional Papers
Author(s): International Monetary Fund
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 15 September 1986
ISBN: 9780939934645
Keywords: taxation, expenditure, salaries, subsidies, income distribution
Most studies of the income distributional effects of public policy fall within the category of “incidence analyses” of taxation and expenditure. They either analyze the effects of particular measures or, if...

APPENDIX II Some Empirical Evidence on Price and Subsidy Policy »
Source: Fund-Supported Programs, Fiscal Policy, and Income Distribution
Series: Occasional Papers
Author(s): International Monetary Fund
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 15 September 1986
ISBN: 9780939934645
Keywords: taxation, expenditure, salaries, subsidies, income distribution
Empirical information concerning the direct effect of price and subsidy policy on income distribution is scarce and of questionable quality. In addition, existing studies do not cover a sufficient range of c...

APPENDIX III A Review of Policies in Fund Programs, 1980–84 »
Source: Fund-Supported Programs, Fiscal Policy, and Income Distribution
Series: Occasional Papers
Author(s): International Monetary Fund
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 15 September 1986
ISBN: 9780939934645
Keywords: taxation, expenditure, salaries, subsidies, income distribution
Selection of the Sample The Fund approved 117 stand-by programs and 23 extended facilities from January 1980 to December 1984, for 68 countries. Twenty-two countries had programs in...

Determinants of Inclusive Growth in ASEAN »
Source: Determinants of Inclusive Growth in ASEAN
Volume/Issue: 2020/118
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): Victoriia Alekhina , and Giovanni Ganelli
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 03 July 2020
ISBN: 9781513549194
Keywords: Economic integration, Economic growth, Development, Inclusive growth, Financial crises, Inequality, Income distribution, Equity, WP, per_capita growth
Over the past decades ASEAN countries have experienced rapid economic growth accompanied by a dramatic fall in poverty rates, but income inequality has not retreated. This research aims at identifying factors which...

Distributional Implications of Government Tax and Expenditure Policies »
Source: Distributional Implications of Government Tax and Expenditure Policies : Issues, Problems, and Methodology
Volume/Issue: 1988/19
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): International Monetary Fund
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 January 1988
ISBN: 9781451922363
Keywords: expenditure, income distribution, expenditures, distributional implications, fiscal incidence
This paper examines the methodological issues arising in the measurement of the distributional impact of tax and expenditure policies, with emphasis on the problems related to the measurement of the impact of adjus...

Fund-Supported Programs, Fiscal Policy, and Income Distribution »
Series: Occasional Papers
Author(s): International Monetary Fund
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 15 September 1986
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9780939934645.084
ISBN: 9780939934645
Keywords: taxation, expenditure, salaries, subsidies, income distribution
This is the third in a group of three papers dealing with various aspects of Fund-supported adjustment programs....

Back Matter »
Source: Fund-Supported Programs, Fiscal Policy, and Income Distribution
Series: Occasional Papers
Author(s): International Monetary Fund
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 15 September 1986
ISBN: 9780939934645
Keywords: taxation, expenditure, salaries, subsidies, income distribution
This is the third in a group of three papers dealing with various aspects of Fund-supported adjustment programs....

Front Matter »
Source: Fund-Supported Programs, Fiscal Policy, and Income Distribution
Series: Occasional Papers
Author(s): International Monetary Fund
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 15 September 1986
ISBN: 9780939934645
Keywords: taxation, expenditure, salaries, subsidies, income distribution
This is the third in a group of three papers dealing with various aspects of Fund-supported adjustment programs....

How Macroeconomic Factors Affect Income Distribution »
Source: How Macroeconomic Factors Affect Income Distribution : The Cross-Country Evidence
Volume/Issue: 1997/152
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): Michael Sarel
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 November 1997
ISBN: 9781451922714
Keywords: income distribution, macroeconomic factors, terms of trade, external position, income distribution data, distribution of income
This study develops a cross-section empirical framework to examine the relationship between the macroeconomic environment and trends in income distribution. The macroeconomic variables that are found to be associat...

I. Introduction »
Source: Fund-Supported Programs, Fiscal Policy, and Income Distribution
Series: Occasional Papers
Author(s): International Monetary Fund
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 15 September 1986
ISBN: 9780939934645
Keywords: taxation, expenditure, salaries, subsidies, income distribution
A major role of the Fund is to help economic adjustment by providing temporary finance to member countries which have a balance of payments deficit. Before the Fund provides finance it first works out with t...