Impact of Taxes (Lustig et al.)

The impact of taxes and social spending on inequality and poverty in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Mexico and Peru: A synthesis of results cordinated by Nora Lustig, published by Tulane University, indicated by Alberto Pfeifer. “We apply a standard tax and benet incidence analysis to estimate the impact on inequality and poverty of direct taxes transfers in education and health)…What prevents Argentina, Bolivia and Brazil from achieving similar reductions in inequality is not the lack of revenues but the fact that they spend less on cash transfer especially transfer that are progressive in absolute terms as a share of GDP.”