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``Can indirect taxes help reduce inequality in developing countries?
Accounting for the informal sector makes consumption taxes progressive, but widespread tax exemptions on necessity goods (food) regressive.''
Recently published in REStud, ``Evaluating the accuracy of counterfactuals: Heterogeneous survival expectations in a life cycle model'', from De Bresser @Netspar @TilburgU:
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