Over the last decade, steady economic growth has placed Mauritius solidly in the upper middle-income group and has contributed to further reducing poverty. Economic growth has been accompanied by an increase in income inequality that has recently started to decline. Rising inequality in household income from labor has been the main culprit behind the growth in overall income inequality. The government's efforts to redistribute the benefits of growth have helped to partially mitigate the increases in labor income inequality. Scope of this study is to investigate the effect of the fiscal system as a whole on the distribution of income as of 2017 and to unpack the contribution of single fiscal instruments to poverty and inequality.
Authors
- Disclosure Status
- Disclosed
- Doc Name
- The Effects of Taxes and Social Spending on the Distribution of Household Income in Mauritius
- Document Date
- 2019-06-01
- Originating Unit
- Poverty GP AFR 1 (GPV01)
- Published in
- United States of America
- Rel Proj ID
- MU-Mauritius: Promoting Sustainable Economic Growth Through Equity -- P168012
- Total Volume(s)
- 1
- Unit Owning
- Poverty GP AFR 1 (GPV01)
- Version Type
- Revised
- Volume No
- 1