Poverty alleviation and tax policy

European Economic Review

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1075-1090

  Pirttilä, Jukka ^a   Tuomala, Matti ^b  

^a Inst for Economies in Transition   (Finland)

^b TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Commodity taxation; Income taxation; Poverty

Indexed keywords

FISCAL POLICY; POVERTY ALLEVIATION; PUBLIC GOODS; TAX SYSTEM;

EID: 3242699900     PISSN: 00142921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2004.01.003     Document Type: Article

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