The Impact of the Tax System and Social Spending in Income Redistribution and Poverty Reduction in Latin America
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Keywords
fiscal incidence; inequality; poverty; social spending; Latin America;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D31 - Microeconomics - - Distribution - - - Personal Income and Wealth Distribution
- H22 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - Incidence
- I38 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs
- O54 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economywide Country Studies - - - Latin America; Caribbean
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