Mongolia : Distributional Impact of Taxes and Transfers (English)

This paper uses Mongolia's Household Socio Economic Survey for 2016 to estimate the distributive impact of taxes and transfers. The findings show that the system is progressive and contributes to reductions in poverty and inequality. The Gini coefficient of the pre-tax-and-transfer income is 0.4183 and decreases to 0.3507 after-tax-and-transfer. This is a reduction of 6.76 Gini points (around 16 percent). Something similar happens with the poverty...

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Freije-Rodriguez,Samuel;

Yang,Judy;
Document Date
2018/11/05
Document Type
Policy Research Working Paper
Report Number
WPS8639
Volume No
1
Total Volume(s)
1
Country
Mongolia,
Region
East Asia and Pacific,
Disclosure Date
2018/11/05
Disclosure Status
Disclosed
Doc Name
Mongolia : Distributional Impact of Taxes and Transfers
Keywords
excise tax

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Freije-Rodriguez,Samuel; Yang,Judy.

Mongolia : Distributional Impact of Taxes and Transfers (English). Policy Research working paper|no. WPS 8639 Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/628471541441796614

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