During the past 15 years, Mexico experienced what Latin America social scientist call a change in its "development model." Gone is the import-substitution industrialization model that had characterized Mexico since the 1930s. Instead, Mexico has become a fairly open economy in which state...

How much redistribution and poverty reduction is being accomplished in Latin America through social spending, subsidies, and taxes? Standard fiscal incidence analyses applied to Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Mexico, Peru, and Uruguay using a comparable methodology yields the following results....

How much do social spending and taxation contribute to achieving the goals of poverty reduction and expanding the access to education and health services among the poor? Standard fiscal incidence analyses applied to Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Mexico, Peru, and Uruguay using a comparable...

Front Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- About the Authors -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1 Overview: Fiscal Policy and Redistribution -- Introduction -- Budget Size, Social Spending, and Taxation -- Fiscal Policy and Inequality -- Fiscal Policy and the Poor -- The Contribution of...