The Income Lever and the Allocation of Aid

The article 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 arti...

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Main Authors:	Ceriani, Lidia, Verme, Paolo
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	en_US
Published:	Taylor and Francis 2014
Subjects:	aid distribution poverty reduction redistribution welfare
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/20486

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spelling	okr-10986-204862021-04-23T14:03:56Z The Income Lever and the Allocation of Aid Ceriani, Lidia Verme, Paolo aid distribution poverty reduction redistribution welfare The article 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 article shows how different redistributive criteria correspond to the different normative criteria of the income lever. It then constructs various income lever indexes based on these criteria and uses such indexes to rank countries according to their own capacity to reduce poverty. 2014-10-29T16:07:56Z 2014-10-29T16:07:56Z 2014-09-24 Journal Article The Journal of Development Studies 0022-0388 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/20486 en_US CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Taylor and Francis Publications & Research :: Journal Article
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description	The article 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 article shows how different redistributive criteria correspond to the different normative criteria of the income lever. It then constructs various income lever indexes based on these criteria and uses such indexes to rank countries according to their own capacity to reduce poverty.
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author	Ceriani, Lidia Verme, Paolo
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title	The Income Lever and the Allocation of Aid
title_short	The Income Lever and the Allocation of Aid
title_full	The Income Lever and the Allocation of Aid
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title_full_unstemmed	The Income Lever and the Allocation of Aid
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publisher	Taylor and Francis
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The Income Lever and the Allocation of Aid

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