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How Tax and Spending Policies Can Reduce Poverty and Inequality

Geoff Riley

20th September 2017

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A timely short video here from the World Bank on how government tax and spending policies can have a direct effect on the scale of poverty and inequality in developing countries.

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Geoff Riley

Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for nearly forty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD and Revision conferences in the UK and overseas.

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