Showing 1 - 10 of 466
, informality, and inequality have been falling over the past two decades, though still remain high. By contrast, productivity has … conclusions on the impact of labor market institutions and demographic factors on unemployment, informality, inequality and … taxes, but also by the increased shares of more educated and older workers. By contrast, the fall in inequality starting in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012102140
This paper demonstrates that high and rising corruption increases income inequality and poverty by reducing economic … corruption. An important implication of these results is that policies that reduce corruption will also lower income inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014403378
This study provides an overview of tax structures in LAC before the COVID-19 pandemic, compares it to OECD countries, and provides recommendations for growth-friendly and inclusive tax policy reforms. LAC countries collect significantly lower tax revenue relative to OECD countries and have tax...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013170577
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010441713
From the mid-1980s to early 1990s, Latin American tax policy provided rich lessons for other reforming countries. Meaningful innovations led also to perceptible revenue gains. Later in the 1990s, tax policies began to drift. Shining examples of fundamental reform seemed to lose their luster....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014401124
The resumption of economic growth in Latin America is predicated on the successful restoration of fiscal discipline and stabilization. In restoring fiscal discipline, the mix of policy instruments should aim at maximizing efficiency in the use of domestic and foreign resources. Poverty...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014396021
Income inequality in Latin America has declined during the last decade, in contrast to the experience in many other … declining trend in income inequality in Latin America and proposes various reasons behind this important development. Using a … panel econometric analysis for a large group of emerging and developing countries, we find that the Kuznets curve holds …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014411474
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013169885
discretion and hence the space for policy errors; (2) human resource policies, capacity building, effective anti-corruption …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012604784
Direct measurement of corruption is difficult due to its hidden nature, and measuring the perceptions of corruption via … countries by applying sentiment analysis to Financial Times articles over 2005-18. This sentiment-enhanced corruption perception … index (SECPI) captures not only the frequncy of corruption related articles, but also the articles' sentiment towards …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012605593