El proposito de este trabajo es brindar una aproximacion a la literatura de "political economy" aplicada a la problematica fiscal. Se describen distintos mecanismos a traves de los cuales el sistema politico introduce sesgos hacia un comportamiento fiscal suboptimo. Se presenta evidencia...

This paper examines the redistributive impact of fiscal policy for Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Indonesia, Mexico, Peru and South Africa using comparable fiscal incidence analysis with data from around 2010. The largest redistributive effect is in South Africa and the smallest in Indonesia. Success...

Using comparable fiscal incidence analysis, this paper examines the impact of fiscal policy on inequality and poverty in 25 countries for around 2010. Success in fiscal redistribution is driven primarily by redistributive effort (share of social spending to GDP in each country) and the extent to...