Suchergebnisse

Untersuchung über die kubanische Strategie der Einkommensumverteilung zur Befriedigung der Grundbedürfnisse nach der Revolution von 1959 insbesondere im Hinblick auf den Versuch zur Auflösung des traditionellen Dilemmas einer Entscheidung zwischen Wachstum und sozialer Gerechtigkeit. Vergleichende Anführung anderer Entwicklungsmodelle am Beispiel von Brasilien und Peru. Ausblick auf die Perspektiven der 80er Jahre

Eine modellhafte Untersuchung der möglichen Auswirkungen einer Einkommensumverteilung zwischen weißer und schwarzer Bevölkerung. Neben den sozialen und politischen Vorzügen werden die positiven Beschäftigungseffekte hervorgehoben, bei mindestens nicht sinkendem Bruttosozialprodukt. Diskutiert werden mögliche Veränderungen der Wirtschaftsstruktur und Methodenprobleme des angewandten Input-Output-Modells. (DÜI-Wsl)

How should society structure income redistribution so as to correct for ineliminable inequalities in marketable talent? This article explores the strengths and weaknesses of an 'egalitarian earnings subsidy scheme' (ESS) in which individuals receive (or pay) a subsidy (or tax) for each pound earned based on the difference between their earnings potential and their society's average earnings potential. ESS corrects for brute luck inequality in earnings potentials in a well-targeted fashion; implements an attractive conception of reciprocity; and, in contrast to an alternative lump-sum tax proposal, does not entail the 'slavery of the talented'. However, any practicable version of ESS may undermine at least one other egalitarian objective - that of maintaining equality of status amongst unequally talented citizens. As a status-friendly alternative, we might try to approximate ESS through a more conventional redistribution scheme using taxes and subsidies that implicitly 'tag' low- and high-ability individuals. While it is difficult to draw any firm policy conclusions, it seems clear that the idea of talent-based taxes and subsidies on the model of ESS should occupy a more prominent place in our thinking about tax-benefits policy to tackle earnings inequality. (British Journal of Political Science / FUB)

Redistribution alleviated poverty in India, though growth was quantitatively more important. Improved distribution countervailed the adverse effect of monsoon failure in the late 1980s on rural poverty. However, worsening distribution in Brazil, associated with the macroeconomic shocks of the 1980s, mitigated poverty alleviation through the limited growth that occurred