redistribution
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Can financial redistribution shape attitudes toward refugees?
Policy changes that raise aggregate welfare, but whose benefits are unevenly distributed, are often politically unfeasible. Politicians may recognise the overall gains from refugee integration, for example, but block visas or permits due to local people’s fears about job losses. But might an approach which allows refugees labour market access, and redistributes to host populations some of the resulting savings in foreign aid or public finance, generate the necessary political support?
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Do Indian private school quotas meet their redistributive potential?
Redistributive policies may exclude the poor because they can’t apply, and fixing this requires alleviating multiple constraints
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Development in an era of deglobalisation
In an era of deglobalisation, developing countries need more equality within their borders
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Informality, consumption taxes and redistribution
Taxes on consumption help governments in developing countries redistribute thanks to the presence of large informal sectors
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Can democracy help with inequality?
While democracy does represent a real shift in political power away from elites, its impact on inequality may be more limited than one might expect