offset the poverty-reducing impact of cash transfers. When one includes the in-kind transfers in education and health, valued …How much redistribution and poverty reduction is being accomplished in Latin America through social spending, subsidies … comparable methodology yields the following results. Direct taxes and cash transfers reduce inequality and poverty by nontrivial …

? A standard fiscal incidence analysis shows that Uruguay achieves a nontrivial reduction in inequality and poverty when … spending on direct transfers, contributory pensions, education, and health is quite progressive in absolute terms except for …

offset the poverty-reducing impact of cash transfers. When one includes the in-kind transfers in education and health, valued …How much redistribution and poverty reduction is being accomplished in Latin America through social spending, subsidies … comparable methodology yields the following results. Direct taxes and cash transfers reduce inequality and poverty by nontrivial …

of disposable income inequality and poverty rose markedly between 2006 and 2009, primarily due to the introduction of a … expansion of public spending on education and health was also sizable and equalizing, but to a lesser degree. An assessment of …