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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 political economy of 'linked' progressive taxation in Africa and Latin America
Mosley, Paul; Abdulai, Abdul-Gafaru - 2016
One key element in the reduction of poverty and (in Latin America) inequality has been the achievement of greater fiscal equity; we analyse one key part of this process, which is the earmarking of portions of tax revenue to be spent on progressive public expenditures such as social protection,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653943
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Determinants of social spending in Latin America during and after the Washington consensus: A dynamic panel error-correction model analysis
Martín-Mayoral, Fernando; Sastre, Juan Fernández - In: Latin American Economic Review 26 (2017) 1, pp. 1-32
This paper examines the determinants of social spending in Latin America during the period 1990-2012 and how they differed between the years of the Washington Consensus (1990-2000) and the period that followed (2001-2012). Special attention is also paid to the evaluation of convergence towards a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011994328
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Allocative efficiency of government spending for growth in Latin American countries
Pessino, Carola; Altinok, Nadir; Chagalj, Cristian - 2022
There is scant empirical economic research regarding the way that Latin American governments efficiently allocate their spending across different functions to achieve higher growth. While most papers restrict their analysis to the size of government, much less is known about the composition of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014518147
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Should cash transfers be confined to the poor? : implications for poverty and inequality in Latin America
Acosta, Pablo; Leite, Phillippe G.; Rigolini, Jamele - 2011
This paper compares for 13 Latin American countries the poverty and inequality impacts of cash transfer programs that are given to all children and the elderly (that is, "categorical" transfers), to programs of equal budget that are confined to the poor within each population group (that is,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009383544
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Fiscal Consolidations and Informality in Latin America and the Caribbean
Thibault, Lemaire - 2020
The transmission mechanisms of fiscal policy are significantly affected by informality in the labour market. Extending a narrative database of fiscal consolidations in 14 countries from Latin America and the Caribbean between 1989 and 2016 in order to account for heterogeneity in terms of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012836266
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Public Expenditure in Latin America : Trends and Key Policy Issues
Clements, Benedict - 2007
This paper examines trends in government spending in Latin America from the mid-1990s to 2006. It also examines key policy issues, including the cyclicality of spending, public investment, public employment, and social expenditures. It finds that primary expenditures have trended upward for the...
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Budget Deficits and Budget Institutions
Alesina, Alberto F. - 2006
By discussing the available theoretical and empirical literature, this paper argues that budget procedures and budget institutions do influence budget outcomes. Budget institutions include both procedural rules and balanced budget laws. We critically assess theoretical contributions in this area...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012782047
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The political economy of 'linked' progressive taxation in Africa and Latin America
Mosley, Paul; Abdulai, Abdul-Gafaru - 2016
One key element in the reduction of poverty and (in Latin America) inequality has been the achievement of greater fiscal equity; we analyse one key part of this process, which is the earmarking of portions of tax revenue to be spent on progressive public expenditures such as social protection,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011568140