Jean-Yves Duclos

Poverty and Equity

Measurement, Policy and Estimation with DAD

This text addresses the understanding and alleviation of poverty, inequality, and inequity using a unique and broad mix of concepts, measurement metho...

Poverty and Equity

Measurement, Policy and Estimation with DAD

This text addresses the understanding and alleviation of poverty, inequality, and inequity using a unique and broad mix of concepts, measurement metho...

Sequential Stochastic Dominance and the Robustness of Poverty Orderings

When comparing poverty across distributions, an analyst must select a poverty line to identify the poor, an equivalence scale to compare individuals f...

Assessing the Performance of an Income Tax

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On Equity Aspects of Imperfect Income Redistribution

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Progressivity, Redistribution and Equity, with Application to the British Tax and Benefit System

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Quebec's Green Future

The Lowest-cost Route to Greenhouse Gas Reductions

Increasing the price of electricity and the carbon tax--gradually--is the best way for Quebec to reach its environmental and energy objectives....

Near Hits and Big Misses

Canada's 2009 Fiscal Accountability Rankings

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Household Composition and Classes of Equivalence Scales

With Application to Spain and the UK

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Pro-Poor Tax Reforms, with an Application to Mexico

This paper proposes a methodology for testing for whether tax reforms are pro-poor. This is done by extending stochastic dominance techniques to help ...