heterogeneity in the income inequality and poverty-reducing power of LAC fiscal systems. While all LAC fiscal systems reduce income … inequality, fiscal systems in nine LAC countries are poverty-increasing, and this startling characteristic has not improved over …This paper uses standard fiscal incidence analysis to study how much income redistribution and poverty reduction are …

helps to understand the high levels of inequality. The contemporary fiscal version of that assertion goes something like … that reduce growth and thwart poverty reduction efforts. The argument of this paper is that there are various possible …

that keep them from reducing poverty and inequality. To perform this assessment, we analyze three dimensions of size … administrative sources. We show that two key factors limit the effect of cash transfer programs on poverty and inequality: the small …: conditional cash transfers, non-contributory pensions, and other transfers. We use an international poverty line of 6.85 dollars …

to data from 12 countries, and investigate resource shares, gender gaps, and poverty at the individual level. We reject … equal sharing, and find large gender gaps in resource shares, and consequently in poverty rates, in some countries. …

the effects of two different constitutions (commitment or no commitment in tax policy), as well as income inequality …

national income (or wealth) appropriated by the same income group. In turn, we develop the Fiscal Inequality Coefficient which …

-cycle model, we determine that taxes and transfers offset 45% of lifetime earnings inequality attributed to differences in …