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 …

and unambiguously assert that trade openness is conducive to growth and poverty reduction, the preponderance of evidence … supports this conclusion. However, the majority of empirical studies also show that the impact of trade on growth and poverty …

Predominant views on the political economy of Latin America and the Caribbean tend to emphasize that elite domination … 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 …

This study analyzes the performance of Latin America and the Caribbean's agriculture between 1980 and 2012 looking at …

Latin America and the Caribbean between 2002 and 2019. Exploiting variation in the introduction of new soap operas with …