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Food Subsidy, Income Transfer, and the Poor

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2011
The Targeted Public Distribution System (TPDS) - the largest food subsidy program in India - has been a dismal failure in targeting the poor. The present paper examines its performance in three Indian states - Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra and Rajasthan, based on primary data collected for this study. As real income transfers through food price subsidies
Raghbendra Jha, Raghav Gaiha, Manoj Kumar Pandey, Nidhi Kaicker   +3 more
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On Social Transfers and Income Taxation

Journal of Public Economic Theory, 2001
In this paper we provide a different rationale for the use of social transfers. It is assumed that the government is unable to condition the (possibly nonlinear) income tax scheme on the productivity and the endowment of the citizens. However, people applying for social benefit have to demonstrate their financial assets, which is costly for the ...
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The Income of Families: Earnings and Transfers

1998
Abstract Over the last fifty years, the distribution of income in Britain has changed dramatically, moving towards more equality up to the mid-l970s, and then shifting again towards greater inequality. During the 1980s, the income gap widened, and by the early 1990s, the distribution of income in Britain was more unequal than at any ...
Ian Shirley, Peggy Koopman-Boyden Ian Pool, St. John   +2 more
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The Taxation of Transfer Income

The Journal of Human Resources, 1982
In this paper we provide a model for evaluating the total marginal tax rate faced by households participating in several transfer programs and paying state and federal income taxes. Because the programs may not be administered according to statute and households may avoid taxation through income under-reporting, or both, we distinguish among statutory,
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Assets and Income Transfers

2004
This chapter will be concerned with equilibrium over time but as in Chapter 2 all the definitions, concepts and results carry over to economies with uncertainty and two dates.
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The marginal utility of income transfers to the Third World

International Organization, 1978
Three different methods are used to estimate the loss and gain in fulfillment of basic needs, for industrial and less developed countries, from possible global transfers of income. Focusing on prospective changes in life expectancy and infant mortality rates, the gain attributable to a given income increment for a person in a very poor country is on ...
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Transfer principles in income redistribution

Journal of Public Economics, 1984
Abstract Dalton's principle of transfer for income redistribution says that society will be better off when a unit of income in transferred from a richer to a poorer individual. This paper investigates the conjunction of a natural extension of Dalton's principle — which says that any combination of a socially desirable transfer with its inverse at ...
Peter C. Fishburn, Robert D. Willig
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Income Transfers, Taxes, and the Poor

1987
While government income transfer programs reduced or eliminated poverty for some benefit recipients, 10 percent of the U.S. population remained in poverty after all transfers were made in 1983. In nonmetro America, the 1983 poverty rate was 12.8 percent. Moreover, many of these poor were working poor, and taxes reduced their earnings.
Bentley, Susan, Bentley, Susan
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12 Income, Income Transfers, and Taxes

2022
Kenneth J. White, Efthymia Antonoudi
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Optimal Income Transfers and Tariffs. [PDF]

, 1997
This paper investigates the optimality of international income transfers in a two-country model in which each country engages in non-cooperative trade policy behaviour. It is shown that unconditional income transfers can never be optimal for the donor country, which not only suffers the loss of income but is harmed as the recipient responds optimally ...
Sajal Lahiri, Pascalis Raimondos-Møller, Kar-yiu Wong, Alan D. Woodland   +3 more
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