International Redistribution of Income

How do international policies on aid, trade, and factor movements affect the international distribution of income? We calculate the impact by world decile of the actual level of aid flows and the effect on income of merchandise trade restrictions by high-income countries. We find that aid's dis...

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Main Authors:	Bourguignon, Francois, Levin, Victoria, Rosenblatt, David
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	EN
Published:	2012
Subjects:	Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions D310 Trade Policy International Trade Organizations F130 Foreign Aid F350 Taxation and Subsidies: Externalities Redistributive Effects Environmental Taxes and Subsidies H230 Economic Development: Human Resources Human Development Income Distribution Migration O150
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/5439

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spelling	okr-10986-54392021-04-23T14:02:22Z International Redistribution of Income Bourguignon, Francois Levin, Victoria Rosenblatt, David Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions D310 Trade Policy International Trade Organizations F130 Foreign Aid F350 Taxation and Subsidies: Externalities Redistributive Effects Environmental Taxes and Subsidies H230 Economic Development: Human Resources Human Development Income Distribution Migration O150 How do international policies on aid, trade, and factor movements affect the international distribution of income? We calculate the impact by world decile of the actual level of aid flows and the effect on income of merchandise trade restrictions by high-income countries. We find that aid's distributional impact is equality enhancing, extremely small in terms of changes in inequality measures, but of some importance for the lowest decile of the distribution. We also find that some of this impact is counteracted by lost potential income in the lower deciles from merchandise trade barriers imposed by high-income countries. 2012-03-30T07:32:50Z 2012-03-30T07:32:50Z 2009 Journal Article World Development 0305750X http://hdl.handle.net/10986/5439 EN http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Journal Article
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spellingShingle	Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions D310 Trade Policy International Trade Organizations F130 Foreign Aid F350 Taxation and Subsidies: Externalities Redistributive Effects Environmental Taxes and Subsidies H230 Economic Development: Human Resources Human Development Income Distribution Migration O150 Bourguignon, Francois Levin, Victoria Rosenblatt, David International Redistribution of Income
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description	How do international policies on aid, trade, and factor movements affect the international distribution of income? We calculate the impact by world decile of the actual level of aid flows and the effect on income of merchandise trade restrictions by high-income countries. We find that aid's distributional impact is equality enhancing, extremely small in terms of changes in inequality measures, but of some importance for the lowest decile of the distribution. We also find that some of this impact is counteracted by lost potential income in the lower deciles from merchandise trade barriers imposed by high-income countries.
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author	Bourguignon, Francois Levin, Victoria Rosenblatt, David
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title	International Redistribution of Income
title_short	International Redistribution of Income
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International Redistribution of Income

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