IMF Blog, (2017), “Chart of the Week: Sharing the Fruits of Growth”, 24 Απριλίου 2017
At last week’s Spring Meetings of the IMF and World Bank, economists and policymakers discussed ways to maintain the momentum of the global economic expansion—while also ensuring that the fruits of growth are shared more widely within their countries. Fiscal policy—government’s ability to tax and spend—has an important role to play.
The effectiveness of fiscal policy in mitigating inequality varies widely by country, as seen in our Chart of the Week. The chart shows the redistribution effect of fiscal policy before and after taxes, as measured by the change in the Gini coefficient. A Gini of zero expresses perfect equality, while a Gini of one expresses maximum inequality.
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- International Monetary Fund, (2017), “IMF Fiscal Monitor, April 2017”, Απρίλιος
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