Commitment to Equity Paper Series

Many governments try to reduce poverty and inequality through a mixture of taxes, transfers, and public services. Individual policies, such as taxation or cash transfers, are frequently evaluated on how well they address these goals. CGD nonresident fellow Nora Lustig’s Commitment to Equity project assesses overall impact of a country’s fiscal policy package on poverty and inequality

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WORKING PAPER

Can a Poverty-Reducing and Progressive Tax and Transfer System Hurt the Poor? - Working Paper 405
Sean Higgins
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Nora Lustig
May 21, 2015
Whether the poor are helped or hurt by taxes and transfers is generally determined by comparing income distributions before and after fiscal policy using stochastic dominance tests and measures of progressivity and horizontal inequity. We formally show that these tools can fail to capture an impo...
WORKING PAPER

Fiscal Policy, Inequality, and the Ethnic Divide in Guatemala - Working Paper 397
Maynor Cabrera et al.
March 25, 2015
Guatemala is one of the most unequal countries in Latin America and has the highest incidence of poverty. The indigenous population is more than twice as likely to be poor than the nonindigenous group.

Commitment to Equity Working Paper Series
Nancy Birdsall
and
Nora Lustig
January 23, 2015
Commitment to Equity paper series
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The Commitment to Equity Assessment (CEQ) – Nora Lustig
Lawrence MacDonald
May 12, 2014
Many governments try to reduce poverty and inequality through a mixture of taxes, transfers, and public services. Individual policies, such as taxation or cash transfers, are frequently evaluated on how well they address these goals. But the overall impact of a country’s fiscal policy package ...