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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Mongolia : Distributional Impact of Taxes and Transfers
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Freije-Rodriguez,Samuel; Yang,Judy.
Mongolia : Distributional Impact of Taxes and Transfers (English). Poverty and Equity Global Practice Working Paper Series|no. 180 Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/234971541520019289