The Impact of Taxes and Social Spending on Inequality in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Mexico, Peru and Uruguay: An Overview

By Nora Lustig, Florencia Amábile, Marisa Bucheli, G. Molina, Sean Higgins, Miguel Jaramillo, Wilson Jiménez Pozo, Veroniza Paz Arauco, Claudiney Pereira, Carola Pessino and 3 more. 2013

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5. A. Goodall
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Citations in the corpus

• Deconstructing the decline in inequality in Latin America (2013, unknown): “The contribution of changes in returns to capital in Argentina, Brazil and Mexico, for example, tended to be small and unequalizing (Lustig et al. 2013).”
• Fiscal policy, inequality and the ethnic divide in Guatemala (2015, unknown): “43 For Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Mexico, Peru and Uruguay, see Lustig et al. (2014).”
• The ICTD Government Revenue Dataset (2014, background): “Further analysis of the relationship with inequality will likely be valuable (see, e.g., Lustig et al. 2014).”
• The Effects of Brazil’s Taxation and Social Spending on the Distribution of Household Income (2014, background): “As explained in Lustig, Pessino, and Scott (2014), there is no agreement in the literature on whether contributory pensions should be treated as part of market income like income from savings or as a government transfer.”