Globalization and the Role of Public Transfers in Redistributing Income in Latin America and the Caribbean

Globalization and the Role of Public Transfers in Redistributing Income in Latin America and the Caribbean

This paper focuses on measuring the extent to which publicly subsidized transfers in Latin America and the Caribbean redistribute income. The redistributive power of 56 transfers in eight countries is measured by their simulated impacts on poverty and inequality, and by their distributional characte...

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Main Authors: Skoufias, Emmanuel, Lindert, Kathy, Shapiro, Joseph
Format: Journal Article
Language:EN
Published: 2012
Subjects:
Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions D310
International Economic Order F020
Taxation and Subsidies: Externalities
Redistributive Effects
Environmental Taxes and Subsidies H230
Measurement and Analysis of Poverty I320
Welfare and Poverty: Government Programs
Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs I380
Economic Development: Human Resources
Human Development
Income Distribution
Migration O150
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/4952

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