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Fiscal Policy and Income Redistribution in Latin America: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom
Lustig, Nora; Pessino, Carola; Molina, George Gray; … - Department of Economics, Tulane University - 2011
upper quintile. Through an in-depth fiscal incidence analysis applied to Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Mexico and Peru we … Argentina but by only 2.4 percent in Bolivia. In Argentina, Brazil and Bolivia government revenues are close to 40 percent of …) for Argentina and slightly so for Bolivia and Mexico. In Brazil and Peru social spending is progressive in relative terms …
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Fiscal policy and income redistribution in Latin America: Challenging the conventional wisdom
Lustig, Nora - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2011
upper quintile. Through an in-depth fiscal incidence analysis applied to Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Mexico and Peru we … Argentina but by only 2.4 percent in Bolivia. In Argentina, Brazil and Bolivia government revenues are close to 40 percent of …) for Argentina and slightly so for Bolivia and Mexico. In Brazil and Peru social spending is progressive in relative terms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009366275
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The effects of decentralisation on public investment: evidence and four lessons from Bolivia and Colombia
Faguet, Jean-Paul - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005
. This paper examines the cases of Bolivia and Colombia to explore decentralisation’s effects on government responsiveness … and poverty-orientation. I first summarize economic data on the effects of decentralisation in each. In Bolivia …, decentralisation made government more responsive by re-directing public investment to areas of greatest need. In Colombia …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010928596
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The Latin American and Caribbean Energy Review 2003
Garrón, Mauricio; Villarreal, Alejandro; Chiliquinga, Byron - EconWPA - 2005
The 2003 Energy review,contains information about the 2003 energy situation of each of our member countries, regional data, as well as economic and social indicators corrected and extended through historical series. It presents and innovative structure for analysis that allows the reader to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118923
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Remittances from Japan to Latin America
Bendixen; Amandi - Inter-American Development Bank; Inter-American … - 2005
Results and analysis of a poll in Japan: Study of Latin American immigrants from Brazil, Peru, Bolivia, Argentina and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010652556
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Remittances from Japan to Latin America
Bendixen; Amandi - Inter-American Development Bank; Inter-American … - 2005
Results and analysis of a poll in Japan: Study of Latin American immigrants from Brazil, Peru, Bolivia, Argentina and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009199182
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Universal Credit: Simplification or personalisation?
Spicker, Paul - In: Local Economy 27 (2012) 5-6, pp. 449-454
Current proposals for welfare reform in the UK are based on a Universal Credit, intended simultaneously to simplify the structure of benefits while offering sensitive and rapid responsiveness to personal circumstances. The two objectives are in conflict, and neither can be achieved by the proposals.
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China’s 21st-century welfare reforms
Duckett, Jane - In: Local Economy 27 (2012) 5-6, pp. 645-650
During the first decade of the 21st century, China’s top leaders reined in the marketising, commercialising welfare reforms of the 1990s, and recommitted the State to a role in providing social goods. But the governmental and social elites who shape welfare policy are still debating the...
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Business Ethics Index: Latin America
Tsalikis, John; Seaton, Bruce; Shepherd, Phillip - In: Journal of Business Ethics 119 (2014) 2, pp. 209-218
in the USA and numerous other countries. This article expands the BEI to five Latin American countries (Brazil, Bolivia …, Mexico, Argentina, and Colombia). The BEI of Argentina and Bolivia were similar in magnitude to the USA, whereas those for … Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico were distinctly higher. The component sub-indices showed divergent patterns. The major ethical …
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Economic Development without Pre-Requisites: How Bolivian Producers Met Strict Food Safety Standards and Dominated the Global Brazil-Nut Market
Coslovsky, Salo V. - In: World Development 54 (2014) C, pp. 32-45
Brazilian firms used to dominate the brazil nut (BN) market to such an extent that the product still carries the … country’s name. In a surprising twist, 77% of all BNs are now processed and exported by Bolivia, a country with far fewer …
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