and Brazil from achieving similar reductions in inequality is not the lack of revenues but the fact that they spend less …

, and taxes? Standard fiscal incidence analyses applied to Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Mexico, Peru, and Uruguay using a … amounts in Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay but less so in Bolivia, Mexico, and Peru. While direct taxes are progressive, the … absolute terms, except in Bolivia where programs are not targeted to the poor. In Bolivia and Brazil, indirect taxes more than …

studies for Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico suggest two main phenomena underlie this trend: a fall in the premium to skilled …

explore empirically these issues using household data covering nine episodes from four Latin American countries (Brazil …, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru). They find that in these countries standard CPI inflation typically reflects the inflation rate …

, and Brazil from achieving similar reductions in inequality is not the lack of revenues but the fact that they spend less …

effects; and endowment effects. Comparing the household income distributions of the USA and Brazil in 1999, we find that most … of Brazil's excess inequality (of 13 Gini points) is accounted for by underlying inequalities in the distributions of … Brazil also make an important contribution (of two to five points). Differences in occupational structure and in racial and …

Brazilian income distribution and those of Mexico and the United States, and find that most of Brazil's excess income inequality …