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Inequality and poverty under Latin America’s new left regimes
McLeod, Darryl; Lustig, Nora - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2011
Inequality and poverty fell sharply in many Latin American countries during a decade in which voters in ten countries … econometric evidence that social democratic regimes in Brazil and Chile were more successful at reducing inequality and poverty … Venezuela started the 1990-2008 sample window with lower levels of inequality, so to some extent recent reductions in inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009249980
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Commitment to Equity Assessment (CEQ). A diagnostic framework to assess governments’ fiscal policies. Handbook
Lustig, Nora - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2011
Fiscal policy can change poverty and inequality substantially or slightly depending on the government’s redistributive … and human capital accumulation, as well as with reducing inequality. The Commitment to Equity Assessment (CEQ) evaluates … independent evaluations. CEQ relies on inequality, poverty and tax and benefit incidence analyses. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009249979
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Deconstructing the Decline in Inequality in Latin America
Lustig, Nora; Lopez-Calva, Luis F.; Ortiz-Juarez, Eduardo - Department of Economics, Tulane University - 2013
Inequality in Latin America unambiguously declined in the 2000s. The Gini coefficient fell in 14 of the 17 countries … main explanations for the decline in inequality: a reduction in hourly labor income inequality, and more robust and … labor income inequality. The causes behind the decline in returns to schooling, however, have not been unambiguously …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010860704
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Social Spending and Income Redistribution in Argentina During the 2000s: the Rising Role of Noncontributory Pensions
Lustig, Nora; Pessino, Carola - Universidad del CEMA - 2012
disposable income inequality and poverty rose markedly between 2006 and 2009 primarily due to the launching of a noncontributory …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010839375
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Social Spending and Income Redistribution in Argentina during the 2000s: The Rising Role of Noncontributory Pensions
Lustig, Nora; Pessino, Carola - Department of Economics, Tulane University - 2013
disposable income inequality and poverty rose markedly between 2006 and 2009 primarily due to the launching of a noncontributory …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011161649
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Comparing the Incidence of Taxes and Social Spending in Brazil and the United States
Higgins, Sean; Lustig, Nora; Ruble, Whitney; Smeeding, … - Department of Economics, Tulane University - 2013
We perform the first comprehensive fiscal incidence analyses in Brazil and the US, including direct cash and food transfers, targeted housing and heating subsidies, public spending on education and health, and personal income, payroll, corporate income, property, and expenditure taxes. In both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011161650
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The Impact of Taxes and Social Spending on Inequality and Poverty in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Mexico and Peru: A Synthesis of Results
Lustig, Nora; Molina, George Gray; Higgins, Sean; … - Department of Economics, Tulane University - 2012
We apply a standard tax and benefit incidence analysis to estimate the impact on inequality and poverty of direct taxes … extent of inequality reduction induced by direct taxes and transfers is rather small (2 percentage points on average … and Brazil from achieving similar reductions in inequality is not the lack of revenues but the fact that they spend less …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011161651
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Social Spending and Income Redistribution in Argentina During the 2000s: the Rising Role of Noncontributory Pensions
Lustig, Nora; Pessino, Carola - Department of Economics, Tulane University - 2012
disposable income inequality and poverty rose markedly between 2006 and 2009 primarily due to the launching of a noncontributory …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011161657
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The Impact of Taxes and Social Spending on Inequality and Poverty in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Mexico and Peru: A Synthesis of Results
Lustig, Nora; Gray-Molina, George; Higgins, Sean; … - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2012
We apply a standard tax and benefit incidence analysis to estimate the impact on inequality and poverty of direct taxes … extent of inequality reduction induced by direct taxes and transfers is rather small (2 percentage points on average … and Brazil from achieving similar reductions in inequality is not the lack of revenues but the fact that they spend less …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011163079
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Social Spending and Income Redistribution in Argentina During the 2000s: the Rising Role of Noncontributory Pensions. Extended Version
Lustig, Nora; Pessino, Carola - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2012
disposable income inequality and poverty rose markedly between 2006 and 2009 primarily due to the launching of a noncontributory …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011163087