Addressing Inequality in Budgeting
Lessons from Recent Country Experience
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In many countries, public expenditure, including transfers, plays a major role in reducing income inequality. The report reviews the various ways that budgeting can be used to this end. A first includes taking a broad approach to results-based budgeting, taking social and distributional goals into consideration. A second relies on integrating distributional impact analysis directly into the budget process. The report discusses the concrete experience of eight OECD countries in this area, analysing how they are integrating distributional impact assessment in spending and budgeting decisions. Finally, it discusses the tools, frameworks and data that are needed to take distributional considerations into account as part of evidence-informed policy making.
The case of Sweden
This case study provides an overview of recent trends in income inequality in Sweden, and discusses how considerations for inequality and distributional implications of public expenditure are brought to bear as part of the budget process. It discusses the practices currently in place in the country, how they are set up in the country’s public expenditure frameworks, and how they are supported at the technical level, through the range of models and data tools that are utilised in policy practice.
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