Economics & Public Finance

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What is the Research Facility on Inequalities ?

Salomé Mançon created a new WIKI page | 14 October 2021

Agence française de développement (AFD) and the European Union (EU) have made the fight against inequality one of their respective priorities. It is in this context that the European Commission and AFD started their collaboration on reducing inequalities with the establishment of a research program...

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Group: Fighting Inequalities through development cooperation and stronger partnerships
What are the main issues on the current agenda for international cooperation on inequality?

Salomé Mançon created a new WIKI page | 14 October 2021

The agenda for international cooperation in the fight against inequality includes five overarching issues: The data Evidence is needed to better describe and measure inequalities in order to implement appropriate policies to reduce inequalities. However, there is a dearth of such data. This lack is...

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Group: Fighting Inequalities through development cooperation and stronger partnerships
What is the link between inequality and development?

Salomé Mançon created a new WIKI page | 14 October 2021

Inequality has a direct impact on growth (due to the decline in domestic demand linked to the middle classes), the concentration of wealth, the economic opportunities of populations, social cohesion, well-being, crime (due to the feeling of social injustice), political stability, etc. Excessive...

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Group: Fighting Inequalities through development cooperation and stronger partnerships
How have inequalities evolved in recent years?

Salomé Mançon created a new WIKI page | 14 October 2021

Although global inequalities between all countries have decreased due to globalization and the emergence of India and China, intra-country inequalities between the richest and the poorest have greatly increased in most countries of the world over the last 30 years. Indeed, 75% of the inhabitants of...

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Group: Fighting Inequalities through development cooperation and stronger partnerships
What are the driving forces behind inequality?

Salomé Mançon created a new WIKI page | 14 October 2021

Globalization and liberalization Globalization and liberalization have played a paradoxical role in recent decades. They have reduced global (inter-country) inequalities but reinforced intra-country inequalities by creating winners and losers within each country. The intensification of trade has...

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Group: Fighting Inequalities through development cooperation and stronger partnerships
How do we measure inequality?

Salomé Mançon created a new WIKI page | 14 October 2021

Different tools have been created to measure inequality: The Lorenz curve and the Gini coefficient The Lorenz curve is a graphical representation of the distribution of wealth in a society. The further away from the bisector the curve is, the greater the inequality. The Gini coefficient, derived...

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Group: Fighting Inequalities through development cooperation and stronger partnerships
Socialprotection.org Webinar - Fiscal Equity and Leaving No One Behind (28 Oct)

Zena Mouawad created a new event | 12 October 2021

28 Oct

From 28 October 2021
Organised by UNICEF

Organiser: United Nations Children's Fund, UNICEF Universal access to social services and social protection is critical to human development and is a right to be realized in an equitable manner by all segments of society. For a universal agenda to be realized, it is critical to adequately reach the...

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Group: Social protection across the humanitarian-development nexus
IMF - Still Not Getting Energy Prices Right: A Global and Country Update of Fossil Fuel Subsidies

Xavier LE MOUNIER posted Information | 5 October 2021

Countries subsidize fossil fuels in 2 ways: undercharge for the product or for other costs such as damage to the planet and people’s health. Read the new analysis on the real cost of energy subsidies and what countries can do to reform the system: https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/WP/Issues/2021/...

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Group: Economics, public finance, domestic revenue mobilisation & budget support
New AidData report on Chinese development projects and hidden debt

Xavier LE MOUNIER posted Information | 30 September 2021

https://www.aiddata.org/blog/aiddatas-new-dataset-of-13-427-chinese-deve... New dataset (by AidData, an international development research lab based at William & Mary’s Global Research Institute) of 13,427 Chinese development projects worth $843 billion reveals major increase in ‘hidden debt’...

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Group: Economics, public finance, domestic revenue mobilisation & budget support
Debt-for-SDGs swaps in indebted countries: The right instrument to meet the funding gap?

Xavier LE MOUNIER posted Information | 30 September 2021

Debt swaps refer to agreements between a creditor and a debtor, wherein the existing debt is replaced by a new instrument or commitment, entailing some financial relief for the debtor and a reallocation of cash flows towards targeted objectives. This report on the implementation of debt swaps has...

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Group: Economics, public finance, domestic revenue mobilisation & budget support

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