Distributive impact of fiscal policy in Cameroon : tax and benefit incidence; revised version of a paper presented in the PEP general meeting, 13-17 June 2005
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2006
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This paper jointly and separately examines the redistributive and poverty effects of the tax and transfer (education and health) systems in Cameroon. The tax system is generally progressive but less so when measured against the benefits to education and health. The net tax system is found to reduce inequality. Although findings show a poverty-increasing effect of the net tax system using absolute poverty lines, the poverty impact remains minimal in rural areas where poverty is high.
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FISCAL POLICY, TAX SYSTEMS, PUBLIC EXPENDITURE, SOCIAL INEQUALITY, POVERTY, POLICY MAKING, CAMEROON, METHODOLOGY, RURAL AREAS, TAXES, INEQUALITY, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, SOUTH OF SAHARA