Social protection and revenue collection are often regarded as potential drivers of social cohesion. The article joins this debate, providing three main contributions. First, we carefully discuss the concept of social cohesion and endorse one specific definition. Second, we propose using the...

The existence of incomplete financial markets, in an environment of uncertainty, is one of the problems of the Latin American economies, that determines a suboptimal path of public spending, with the consequent loss of social welfare. The existence of a high degree of positive correlation...