thirteen countries in Latin America around 2010. Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica and Uruguay are the countries which … equalizing in Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay and also in Chile, Costa Rica and Ecuador but, in the latter, their effect is small … countries tend to redistribute more. Bolivia, Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Peru redistribute below the trend …

-standing challenges in Colombia. …

Colombia has the seventh highest Gini coefficient of income inequality in the world. The Santos Administration is aware … Colombia, meanwhile, direct taxes, indirect taxes, and monetary transfers hardly dent the high Gini coefficient. To reduce … presents an illustrative reform package that would be sufficient for Colombia to reach levels of inequality similar to Chile or …