Socially Improving Tax Reforms

This article proposes graphical methods to determine whether commodity tax changes are "socially improving," in the sense of improving social welfare or decreasing poverty for large classes of social welfare and poverty indices. It also shows how estimators of critical poverty lines and ec...

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Main Authors: Duclos, Jean-Yves, Makdissi, Paul, Wodon, Quentin
Language:EN
Published: 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/5677