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Macro-Structural Policies and Income Inequality in Low-Income Developing Countries
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Ms. Stefania Fabrizio
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Davide Furceri null

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Mr. Rodrigo Garcia-Verdu
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Ms. Grace B Li
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Mrs. Sandra V Lizarazo Ruiz
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Ms. Marina Mendes Tavares
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Mr. Futoshi Narita
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Adrian Peralta
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Staff Discussion Notes
Volume/Issue:
Volume 2017: Issue 001
Language:
English
Publication Date:
26 Jan 2017
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5089/9781475566222.006
ISBN:
9781475566222
ISSN:
2617-6750
Pages:
42
Keywords:
SDN; productivity; rate; revenue; Income inequality; growth; macro-structural policies; resource mobilization; infrastructure investment; financial sector reform; financial inclusion; agriculture; cash transfer program; higher-productivity sector; inequality in low-income developing countries; productivity gap; cost of capital; income fluctuation; Value-added tax; Income; Agricultural sector; Income distribution; Caribbean
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Despite sustained economic growth and rapid poverty reductions, income inequality remains stubbornly high in many low-income developing countries. This pattern is a concern as high levels of inequality can impair the sustainability of growth and macroeconomic stability, thereby also limiting countries’ ability to reach the Sustainable Development Goals. This underscores the importance of understanding how policies aimed at boosting economic growth affect income inequality. Using empirical and modeling techniques, the note confirms that macro-structural policies aimed at raising growth payoffs in low-income developing countries can have important distributional consequences, with the impact dependent on both the design of reforms and on country-specific economic characteristics. While there is no one-size-fits-all recipe, the note explores how governments can address adverse distributional consequences of reforms by designing reform packages to make pro-growth policies also more inclusive.
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2617-6750
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International Monetary Fund