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dc.contributor.authorStephen, Esaku
dc.date.accessioned2023-05-31T10:06:22Z
dc.date.available2023-05-31T10:06:22Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.identifier.citationEsaku, S. (2021). Does income inequality increase the shadow economy? Empirical evidence from Uganda. Development Studies Research, 8(1), 147-160.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1080/21665095.2021.1939082
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12504/1362
dc.description.abstractThis paper applies the autoregressive distributed lag bounds testing method to investigate the long- and short-run relationship between the size of the shadow economy and income inequality in Uganda. The findings reveal evidence of the long and short-run relationship between the shadow economy and income inequality. We find that a rise in income inequality significantly increases the size of the shadow economy in Uganda, all else equal. These results are robust to the use of alternative econometric methods. At the policy level, instituting income redistribution policies to uplift the standard of the poor, improving resource allocation to productive sectors of the economy, reforming the tax system and macroeconomic environment, and implementing political and institutional reforms to address corruption could be viable policy options to address informality in Uganda.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherDevelopment Studies Researchen_US
dc.subjectIncome distributionen_US
dc.subjectInformal sectoren_US
dc.subjectIncome inequalityen_US
dc.subjectGovernment spendingen_US
dc.subjectShadow economyen_US
dc.subjectTaxationen_US
dc.titleDoes income inequality increase the shadow economy? Empirical evidence from Ugandaen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US


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