1. Promoting Group Justice: Fiscal Policies in Post-Conflict Countries
- Author:
- Frances Stewart, Graham Brown, and Alex Cobham
- Publication Date:
- 10-2007
- Content Type:
- Policy Brief
- Institution:
- Center on International Cooperation
- Abstract:
- Evidence suggests that economic inequalities – particularly “horizontal inequalities” among groups defined by ethnic, racial, linguistic, regional, and religious lines – can generate social tensions and fuel violent conflict. Well-designed fiscal policies can help build a sustainable peace by working to reduce these inequalities. This paper reviews some challenges raised by analyzing the impacts of tax and expenditure policies on inequality in post-conflict settings, and makes recommendations for incorporating distributional effects into fiscal policy making.
- Topic:
- Conflict Resolution, Debt, Political Economy, and Poverty