The Relationship Between Transfer Expenditures and Income Distribution in Turkey
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Gözen,
S.
&
Sağdıç,
E.
N.
(eds.)
2024.
Selected Public Finance Issues in Türkiye.
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Transfer expenditures, one of the fiscal policy tools used to reduce income inequality and poverty, have increased their share in the budget over the years. In this study, Granger causality analysis was applied to assess the impact of transfers to households and social benefits on income distribution. The findings indicate a unidirectional causality from transfer expenditures to the Gini coefficient. In this context, strategically targeted transfer expenditures have the potential to promote socio-economic balance and reduce income inequality.
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Copyright (c) 2024 Abdullah Burhan Bahçe, Ezgi Bahçe, Berna Hızarcı Beşer, Canan Çetil, Ebru Yalçın, İlter Ünlükaplan, Meltem Burcu Durmuş, Güner Tuncer, Hasan Hüseyin Aleçakır, Gülistan Altıok, Hakan Kaçar, Hatice Dayar, Özcan Erdoğan, Serhat Gözen, Ersin Nail Sağdıç, Tuba Gezer; Serhat Gözen, Ersin Nail Sağdıç