Fiscal Policy and Income Redistribution in Latin America: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom
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- Nora Lustig, 2011. "Fiscal policy and income redistribution in Latin America: Challenging the conventional wisdom," Working Papers 227, ECINEQ, Society for the Study of Economic Inequality.
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Keywords
fiscal incidence; fiscal policy; inequality; poverty; redistribution; social policy; taxes; transfers; Latin America; Argentina; Bolivia; Brazil; Mexico and Peru;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D63 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
- H11 - Public Economics - - Structure and Scope of Government - - - Structure and Scope of Government
- H22 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - Incidence
- H5 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies
- I14 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health and Inequality
- I24 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Education and Inequality
- I3 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty
- O15 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
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