The extent of redistribution in low-income developing countries, including in Africa, is very limited, which raises the question whether the tax rates of high-income individuals should be raised. A crucial parameter when considering a potential increase in progressivity is the response of taxable ...
A crucial parameter when considering a potential increase in progressivity is the response of taxable income to increased tax rates. In this paper, we evaluate a major personal income tax reform in Uganda that came into effect in 2012–2013, which increased the top tax rate by 10 percentage ...
As the Federal Reserve shifts from raising rates to cutting them, income-focused investors are facing a key challenge: how to deal with falling returns on cash? Following September’s rate cut, the Fed’s first in over four years, expectations are growing that policy rates will decline further...
Everybody in South Africa is subject to income tax. Tax was only payable on income from a South African source until 2001. Nowadays, residents are tax
Deidra C.Crews, inChronic Kidney Disease in Disadvantaged Populations, 2017 2.3Low- and middle-income countries Despite high rates ofCKD[16], little is known regarding the relation of poverty to CKD in low- and middle-income countries, where gradients in income and educational attainment may be...
The main argument against UBI is its cost, and the fear that it provides poor value for money. Universality is essential to the proposal: advocates worry that means-testing creates punitive effective tax rates at the income levels where benefits are normally withdrawn. If additional labour income...
This study investigates the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on banking sector profitability in Uganda for the period spanning Q1 2000 to Q1 2021, using the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL Bound) testing approach to co-integration while controlling for bank specific and macroeconomic determinants...
Further, UBI enables people to stay in school longer, reducing drop-out rates, and to participate in training to improve skills or learn a trade, improving their chances of getting a good job. Uganda’s UBI trial, the Youth Opportunities Program, enabled participants to invest in skills traini...
On one hand, family size is highly correlated with the change in fertility rates induced by the family planning policy. On the other hand, family planning policies in China have shifted in accordance with the population growth trends, and administrative limits on fertility are different in urban ...
Some, like the initial pilots forUganda’sEight program, were found to result in significant multipliers on economic activity and well-being. Other programs, however, returned mixed results that made further experimentation difficult.Finland’shighly-touted pilot program decreased stress levels of recipi...