Fiscal Redistribution (Go

Fiscal redistribution and income inequality in Latin America by Edwin Goñi, J. Humberto López and Luis Servén, published by The World Bank. This paper documents the performance of Latin American fiscal systems from the perspective of income redistribution using newly-available information on the incidence of taxes and transfers across the region. This indicate that the differences in income inequality before taxes and tranfers between Latin America and Western Europe are much more modest than those after taxes and transfers. see: http://econ.worldbank.org/external/default/main?pagePK=64165259&theSitePK=469372&piPK=64165421&menuPK=64166093&entityID=000158349_20080124094447