a unity is misleading. The (after direct taxes and transfers) Gini, for example, declines by over 10 percent in … Bolivia but they are on opposite sides in terms of the extent of redistribution.Fourth, due to indirect taxes households are …

We apply a standard tax and benefit incidence analysis to estimate the impact on inequality and poverty of direct taxes …, indirect taxes and subsidies, and social spending (cash and food transfers and in-kind transfers in education and health). The … extent of inequality reduction induced by direct taxes and transfers is rather small (2 percentage points on average …

, and taxes? Standard fiscal incidence analyses applied to Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Mexico, Peru, and Uruguay using a … comparable methodology yields the following results. Direct taxes and cash transfers reduce inequality and poverty by nontrivial … amounts in Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay but less so in Bolivia, Mexico, and Peru. While direct taxes are progressive, the …

How much redistribution and poverty reduction is being accomplished in Latin America through social spending and taxes …. Direct taxes and cash transfers reduce inequality and poverty by nontrivial amounts in Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay, less … so in Mexico and relatively little in Bolivia and Peru. While direct taxes are progressive, the redistributive impact is …

We apply a standard tax and benefit incidence analysis to estimate the impact on inequality and poverty of direct taxes …, indirect taxes and subsidies, and social spending (cash and food transfers and in-kind transfers in education and health). The … extent of inequality reduction induced by direct taxes and transfers is rather small (2 percentage points on average …

, and taxes? Standard fiscal incidence analyses applied to Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Mexico, Peru, and Uruguay using a … comparable methodology yields the following results. Direct taxes and cash transfers reduce inequality and poverty by nontrivial … amounts in Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay but less so in Bolivia, Mexico, and Peru. While direct taxes are progressive, the …

We apply a standard tax-and-benefit-incidence analysis to estimate the impact on inequality and poverty of direct taxes …, indirect taxes and subsidies, and social spending (cash and food transfers and in-kind transfers in education and health). The … extent of inequality reduction induced by direct taxes and transfers is rather small (2 percentage points on average …

, and taxes? Standard fiscal incidence analyses applied to Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Mexico, Peru, and Uruguay using a … comparable methodology yields the following results. Direct taxes and cash transfers reduce inequality and poverty by nontrivial … amounts in Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay but less so in Bolivia, Mexico, and Peru. While direct taxes are progressive, the …