Economics 0455 · IGCSE · Living standards

Living standards — practice question

If a government raises the rate of progressive income tax and also increases its expenditure on hospitals, what is likely to happen to income distribution and to living standards?

  • Adistribution of income becomes less even; living standards fall
  • Bdistribution of income becomes less even; living standards rise
  • Cdistribution of income becomes more even; living standards fall
  • Ddistribution of income becomes more even; living standards rise

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