Lustig, Nora; Pessino, Carola; Molina, George Gray; … - Department of Economics, Tulane University - 2011
Bolivia but they are on opposite sides in terms of the extent of redistribution.Fourth, due to indirect taxes households are … argue that conventional wisdom may be wrong. First, the extent and effectiveness of income redistribution and poverty … a unity is misleading. The (after direct taxes and transfers) Gini, for example, declines by over 10 percent in …