Lustig, Nora; Amábile, Florencia; Bucheli, Marisa; … - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2013
, and taxes? Standard fiscal incidence analyses applied to Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Mexico, Peru, and Uruguay using a … comparable methodology yields the following results. Direct taxes and cash transfers reduce inequality and poverty by nontrivial … amounts in Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay but less so in Bolivia, Mexico, and Peru. While direct taxes are progressive, the …