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The Impact of Taxes and Social Spending on Inequality and Poverty in Latin America : Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Hondu...
Lustig, Nora - 2016
equalizing in Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay and also in Chile, Costa Rica and Ecuador but, in the latter, their effect is small … countries tend to redistribute more. Bolivia, Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Peru redistribute below the trend …; Chile, Ecuador and Mexico are on trend; and, Argentina, Brazil, Costa Rica and Uruguay redistribute above the trend. Fiscal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012983141
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A Pause in the Growth of Inequality in China?
Herd, Richard - 2010
In recent years, policymaking in China has put increasing emphasis on stemming the growth in inequality, which had been fairly steep since the 1980s. Policy action has taken the form of regional development measures and of reforms of various aspects of the social safety net broadly defined. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012444749
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Moving towards fairer regional minimum income schemes in Spain
Hernández, Adrian; Picos, Fidel; Riscado, Sara - 2020
Minimum income schemes are set to provide citizens with a minimum living standard. In Spain, these schemes consist of a heterogeneous and complex collection of regional benefits designed and implemented by the Autonomous Communities. This generates important regional discrepancies among the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012241667
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Moving towards fairer regional minimum income schemes in Spain
Hernández, Adrian; Picos, Fidel; Riscado, Sara - 2020
Minimum income schemes are set to provide citizens with a minimum living standard. In Spain, these schemes consist of a heterogeneous and complex collection of regional benefits designed and implemented by the Autonomous Communities. This generates important regional discrepancies among the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012284803
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The distributional impact of social spending in Peru
Gaentzsch, Anja - 2018
Peru has made great progress in reducing poverty and inequality in the past decade alongside high economic growth … impact of the public tax and transfer system in Peru. It applies an extended income approach that accounts for the value of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011840799
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The state and income inequality in Brazil
Souza, Marcelo Medeiros Coelho de; Souza, Pedro H. G. F. de - 2015
Using a factor decomposition of the Gini coefficient we measure the contribution to inequality of direct monetary income flows to and from the Brazilian State. The income flows from the State include public servants' earnings, Social Security pensions, unemployment benefits and Social Assistance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012056561
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The State and Income Inequality in Brazil
Medeiros, Marcelo; Souza, Pedro - 2014
Using a factor decomposition of the Gini coefficient we measure the contribution to inequality of direct monetary income flows to and from the Brazilian State. The income flows from the State include public servants' earnings, Social Security pensions, unemployment benefits and Social Assistance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014158479
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Remesas y Migración Internacional en América Latina: Simulación de los Efectos en la Pobreza y la Desigualdad
Battistón, Diego - 2010
la desigualdad en cuatro países latinoamericanos con importantes procesos migratorios (Ecuador, El Salvador, Honduras y … Nicaragua). A partir de encuestas de hogares se estiman los cambios producidos sobre estas dos dimensiones utilizando diferentes … la desigualdad y en Ecuador, El Salvador y Honduras también se reducen significativamente las tasas de pobreza. La …
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