Fiscal Incidence in Tanzania

Younger, Stephen D.; Myamba, Flora; Mdadila, Kenneth

doi:10.1111/1467-8268.12204

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“…For instance, the United Republic of Tanzania's ability to reduce poverty from 70.4 percent in 1991 to 46.6 percent in 2011 has been linked to its distributive policy effectiveness. Younger et al () find Tanzania's redistributive policies more effective largely because both direct and indirect taxes are more progressive than in other countries. Its conditional cash transfer program is well targeted, and if it were expanded to a size that is typical for lower middle‐income countries, it could reduce poverty significantly.…”

Section: Fiscal Space Poverty and Inequality: What Does The Evidencementioning

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Fiscal Space, Poverty and Inequality in Africa

Odusola¹

2017

African Development Review

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The benefit of growth experienced since 2000 in Africa has not been broadly shared. Poverty fell by only 8.0 percentage points between 1990 and 2010 compared to the targeted 28.3 percentage points by 2015. Although income inequality fell by 4.3 percent between 1990 and 2009, Africa remains the second most unequal region globally after Latin America and the Caribbean region. Fiscal policies play important roles in reducing poverty and inequality through such instruments as taxes, transfers and government spending. Countries with high fiscal space tend to have lower poverty rates than those with lower tax revenue to GDP ratios. Indeed, fiscal space alone tends to account for 16.5 percent of changes in poverty reduction. Institutions play an important role in increasing fiscal space in Africa. Countries with increasing participatory, transparent and accountable budgetary process tend to have stronger impact of fiscal space on poverty and inequality reduction. Although 29 countries recorded declines in the distributional effectiveness of their fiscal policies over time, the distributional impact rose by 35 percent or more in countries such as Angola, Mozambique, South Africa and Togo. This paper calls for enhancing the non-extractive revenues by diversifying revenues sources from the extractive sectors and improving progressive taxation in countries with high fiscal space and high income inequality. Heavy investment in quality and accessible education and health services, and social programs are also vital to reduce poverty and inequality in Africa.

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Section: Fiscal Space Poverty and Inequality: What Does The Evidencementioning

confidence: 99%

Fiscal Space, Poverty and Inequality in Africa

Odusola¹

2017

African Development Review

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“…However, some countries included benefits to the agriculture sector. For instance, studies for Ghana (Younger et al 2015), Uganda (Jellema et al 2016) and Tanzania (Younger et al 2016) assess the distributional impact of subsidized inputs for agriculture. In Ethiopia, Hill et al (2017) studied the impact of the country's food security and rural safety net program.…”

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Ecuador Trade and Investment Competitiveness Report

Cunha¹,

Reyes²,

Pienknagura³

2019

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a background note on the institutional assessment for trade and investment in Ecuador. The trade policy analysis was led by Jose-Daniel Reyes, Mariana Vijil (Economist, GFCLC), Esteban Ferro, and Lucas Zavala (consultant, GMTIC). Ivan Francisco Gachet (Consultant, GMTLC) provided a background note on the labor market. Anne Brockmeyer (Senior Economist, GMTLC), Jakob Brounstein, and Spencer Smith provided a background note on the impact of the tax on capital outflows. Ashwini Rekha (Agricultural Economist, GFAO4) provided a background note on the impact of agricultural support policies. Peer reviewers were Jakob Engel (Economist, GMTRI) and Ivan Nimac (Lead Private Sector Specialist, GMTCI). We would also like to thank the Central Bank of Ecuador, the Super intendency of Societies, the Domestic Revenue Service, and the Ministry of Production, Foreign Trade, Investment, and Fisheries for support gathering information and the guidance on the most relevant topics to explore.

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“…It includes social protection schemes and monetises in-kind benefits from public health and education services. Among the 23 counties where CEQI has applied this methodology, three are in this sample: Ethiopia, Tanzania and Uganda (World Bank, 2015c;Younger et al, 2016;Jellema et al, 2016).…”

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Social Protection in East Africa

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Fiscal Incidence in Tanzania

Cited by 25 publications

References 12 publications

Fiscal Space, Poverty and Inequality in Africa

Fiscal Space, Poverty and Inequality in Africa

Ecuador Trade and Investment Competitiveness Report

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