-standing challenges in Colombia. …

Colombia has the seventh highest Gini coefficient of income inequality in the world. The Santos Administration is aware … Colombia, meanwhile, direct taxes, indirect taxes, and monetary transfers hardly dent the high Gini coefficient. To reduce … presents an illustrative reform package that would be sufficient for Colombia to reach levels of inequality similar to Chile or …

Colombia has reduced extreme poverty in the past 16 years by almost half, moderate poverty by 22 percentage points, and … of the distributional impacts of taxes and expenditures in Colombia in 2017. It makes a methodological comparison with … results suggest that the combined effect of taxes and social spending in Colombia contributes to poverty reduction between 0 …

This paper examines the redistributive impact of fiscal policy for Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Indonesia, Mexico, Peru and … policy increases poverty in Brazil and Colombia (over and above market income poverty) due to high consumption taxes on basic … effect of net indirect taxes is unequalizing in Brazil, Colombia, Indonesia and South Africa. Total spending on education is …

Colombia has the seventh highest Gini coefficient of income inequality in the world. The Santos Administration is aware …, which exhibits much lower income disparities, mainly as a result of effective policies of fiscal redistribution. In Colombia … reform package that would be sufficient for Colombia to reach levels of inequality similar to Chile or Costa Rica in a …