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
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/16327

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