We analyse the effect of taxes and benefits on income distribution of six Latin American countries: Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Uruguay, and Venezuela. Our analysis makes use of tax-benefit microsimulation models based on harmonized household representative survey data and developed...

El presente trabajo analiza la relación entre el manejo de los recursos naturales no renovables, su relación con el ciclo de precios y la evolución de los ingresos fiscales en la región. El auge de precios ha tenido indudablemente un impacto positivo en el espacio fiscal de los países...

The COVID-19 pandemic drastically affected household incomes around the world. In developed economies, pre-pandemic tax-benefit policies and emergency transfers mitigated to a large extent the negative income shock. However, less is known about the effect of government intervention on household...