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Commitment to Equity @CEQinstitute

Directed by @NoraLustig, the CEQ Institute analyzes the impact of taxation and social spending on inequality and poverty in individual countries.

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Commitment to Equity@CEQinstitute
2 Nov 2018
We are pleased to announce the publication of the CEQ Handbook Estimating the Impact of Fiscal Policy on Inequality and Poverty (online copy available at no cost.) commitmentoequity.org/public… … A hardcopy may be purchased from @BrookingsPress brookings.edu/book/commitmen…
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Nora Lustig@noralustig
21 Jun 2023
NEW @CEQinstitute WP127 “Counting and Accounting: Measuring the Effectiveness of Fiscal Policy in Multidimensional Poverty Reduction” co-authored by Maria Emma Santos, Maximiliano Miranda Zanetti and myself. commitmentoequity.org/wp-con…
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Nora Lustig@noralustig
4 May 2023
Congratulations to @gabriel_zucman for 2023 Clark medal! A super well deserved recognition for, among other things, proving JB Clark wrong.
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Nora Lustig@noralustig
27 Jun 2022
NEW @CEQinstitute WP 121 - "Income Sources, Intra-Household Allocation And Individual Poverty" by Oliver Bargain: ideas.repec.org/p/tul/ceqwps… #IncomeSources #Poverty #EngelCurves #TaxBenefitPolicies #Argentina #SouthAfrica

Income Sources, Intra-Household Allocation And Individual Poverty, by

Policies aimed at redistributing to the most vulnerable individuals must consider inequality within households as much as between households. In that spirit, many cash transfers in low and middle inco

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As part of the revamped CEQ Data Center, we are excited to announce the launch of the CEQ Data Visualization Tools! Our interactive tools enable users to access our data and create cross-country graphs and tables on demand: commitmentoequity.org/datavi…

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Nora Lustig@noralustig
10 Jun 2022
Did you know that @CEQinstitute based indicators were officially incorporated as targets of SDG Goal 1 and SDG Goal 10? Learn more here: bit.ly/3mzc4ZF #SDGs #sustainabledevelopmentgoals @UNDP @ConnectSDGs
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Nora Lustig@noralustig
10 Jun 2022
We are delighted to announce the launch of the revamped @CEQinstitute Data Center on Fiscal Redistribution. The CEQ Data Center is an information system designed to monitor the impact of fiscal policy on inequality and poverty.
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Janet Gornick@JanetGornick
27 Apr 2022
Just posted! Journal of Economic Inequality, special issue: "Finding the Upper Tail" - 13 articles on top-end analyses/adjustments, drawing on impressive array of data and methods. @stone_lis @lisdata @ecineq @noralustig @daniwaldenstrom @WIL_inequality link.springer.com/journal/10…
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Fundación NovaGob México@novagob_mx
26 May 2022
El Commitment to Equity Institute @CEQinstitute es un espacio fundado en 2015 por la Dra. @noralustig, quien estuvo con nosotros esta mañana durante la reunión virtual.  Conoce más sobre el instituto👇 commitmentoequity.org
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Nora Lustig@noralustig
9 May 2022
Do we know how much inequality there is? See what experts say in our Special Issue of the Journal of Economic Inequality "Finding the Upper Tail" edited by Cowell, Lustig and Waldenström bit.ly/3L3ap8C

The Journal of Economic Inequality

The Journal of Economic Inequality provides a forum for analysis and measurement of economic and social inequalities, using theoretical and empirical ...

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Nora Lustig@noralustig
4 May 2022
NEW @CEQinstitute WP 120 - "Fiscal Policies and their Impact on Income Distribution in India" by Sridhar Kundu and Maynor Cabrera: ideas.repec.org/p/tul/ceqwps… #FiscalPolicy #IncomeDistribution #India

Fiscal Policies and their Impact on Income Distribution in India, by S

Fiscal policies play a key role in reshaping income distribution in India. There are differences in policies at the Union, State, and Municipal or city level, which have an individual and combined imp

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Nora Lustig@noralustig
26 Apr 2022
NEW @CEQinstitute WP 119 - "The Redistributive Impact of Fiscal Policies in Costa Rica 2010-2018" by Ludovico Feoli (@lffeolil) and Maynor Cabrera: ideas.repec.org/p/tul/ceqwps…

The Redistributive Impact of Fiscal Policies in Costa Rica 2010-2018,

Social spending in Costa Rica is sizeable and effectively lowers poverty and inequality. A reliance on indirect taxes on the revenue side reverses a small part of that reduction for Consumable Income.

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Nora Lustig@noralustig
26 Apr 2022
NEW @CEQinstitute WP 118 - “Public Expenditures under the 2011-2020 Poverty Reduction Strategy in China" by Samuel Freije and Fuchang Zhao: bit.ly/3KjfxVC

Public Expenditures Under The 2011-2020 Poverty Reduction Strategy In

The official poverty reduction strategy defined by the “Outline for Development Oriented Poverty Reduction for China’s Rural Areas (2011-2020)”, has a two-pronged approach. On the one hand, economic d

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Nora Lustig@noralustig
1 Mar 2022
New @CEQinstitute WP 117: The Effects Of Fiscal Policy On Inequality And Poverty In The Gambia by Haydeeliz Carrasco, Hamidou Jawara and Moritz Meyer (@m2meyer) bit.ly/3vpahw6 #TheGambia #FiscalPolicy #Inequality

The Effects Of Fiscal Policy On Inequality And Poverty In The Gambia,

The overall objective of this study is to assess the impact of the fiscal system on poverty and inequality in The Gambia as of 2015. The study presents the first empirical evidence on the distribution

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Nora Lustig@noralustig
1 Feb 2022
NEW @CEQinstitute WP 115 Política fiscal e impactos redistributivos en Bolivia: bit.ly/3oghLx2 #Bolivia #FiscalPolicy
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Oliver Fiala@oliver_fiala
5 Oct 2021
This is why it is so great to see UN organisations, the @WorldBank, @CEQinstitute work together with civil society organisations, finding the right narrative and the specific examples to illustrate fiscal policies and their consequences!
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Oliver Fiala@oliver_fiala
5 Oct 2021
This analysis is around since the 1940s, but @CEQinstitute in collaboration with many international organisations has allowed to implement this in poorer countries as well (now covering 80% of the world's poor).
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Nora Lustig@noralustig
5 Oct 2021
New WP - Universal Basic Income Programs: How Much Would Taxes Need to Rise? Evidence for Brazil, Chile, India, Russia, and South Africa by @Ali_Enami, @Ugentilini, Patricio Larroulet, Nora Lustig, Emma Monsalve, Siyu Quan and @JameleRigolini bit.ly/3BgRyCQ

Universal Basic Income Programs: How Much Would Taxes Need to Rise? Ev

Using microsimulations this paper analyzes the poverty and tax implications of replacing current transfers and subsidies by a budget-neutral (no change in the fiscal deficit) universal basic income pr

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Nora Lustig@noralustig
4 Oct 2021
New @CEQinstitute working paper "Annualizing Labor Market, Inequality, and Poverty Indicators" by Eduardo Lora, Miguel Benítez & Diego Gutiérrez bit.ly/3uEkvWU #Inequality #IncomePoverty

Annualizing Labor Market, Inequality, and Poverty Indicators, by Eduar

Widely, 12-month or 4-quarter average labor market, inequality and poverty indicators computed from repeated cross sections of household surveys are interpreted as annual. This is a valid interpretati

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Ugo Gentilini@Ugentilini
1 Oct 2021
Are #Covid #cashtransfer responses in #LatinAmerica sufficiently generous in size? It varies over time and space… New @CEQinstitute paper by @MerikeBlofield @PribbleJenny & Giambruno 👇 repec.tulane.edu/RePEc/ceq/c…
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