Income Redistribution Around the Globe: Determinants and Mechanisms by Ali Enami, Nora Lustig published by Tulane University (1/2025). Income redistribution through taxes and transfers varies significantly across countries and over time. Existing explanations for this heterogeneity range from pre-fiscal…
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Estimating the impact of fiscal policy on inequality and poverty (Lustig)
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Commitment to equity handbook: Estimating the impact of fiscal policy on inequality and poverty by Nora Lustig published by Brookings Institution Press (2018). “Since the pioneering fiscal incidence analy sis developed by Charles Stauffacher (1941)1 for the United States…
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Seventy-five Years of Measuring Income Inequality in Latin America (Alvaredo, et al.)
nov 6, 2023, 7:56 AM 0
Seventy-five Years of Measuring Income Inequality in Latin America by Facundo Alvaredo, François Bourguignon, Francisco Ferreira, Nora Lustig published by IDB (10/2023). Drawing on a comprehensive compilation of quantile shares and inequality measures for 34 countries, including over 5,600…
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Distributional Effects of Taxation in Latin America (Pessino et al.)
nov 1, 2023, 9:01 AM 0
Distributional Effects of Taxation in Latin America by Carola Pessino, Alejandro Rasteletti, Daniel Artana,Nora Lustig published by IDB (10/2023) This chapter analyzes the incidence on income distribution by a comprehensive array of direct and indirect taxes in ten Latin…
Counting and Accounting: Measuring the Effectiveness of Fiscal Policy in Multidimensional Poverty Reduction by Maria Emma Santos, Nora Lustig, Maximiliano Miranda Zanetti published by OPHI (8/2023). In this paper we propose indicators of impact and spending effectiveness of fiscal…
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Underreporting of Top Incomes and Inequality (Flachaire, Lustig, Vigorito)
out 24, 2022, 10:46 AM 0
Underreporting of Top Incomes and Inequality: A Comparison of Correction Methods using Simulations and Linked Survey and Tax Data by Emmanuel Flachaire, Nora Lustig, Andrea Vigorito published The Review of Income and Wealth (10/2022). Household surveys do not capture…
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Universal Basic Income, Taxes, and the Poor (Lustig, Pabon)
set 20, 2022, 11:25 AM 0
Universal Basic Income, Taxes, and the Poor by Nora Lustig, Valentina Martinez Pabon published by Tulane University (9/2022). A Universal Basic Income (UBI) is often seen as an attractive policy option to replace existing targeted transfer and subsidy programs….
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Wage inequality in the developing world (Rodríguez-Castelán et al.)
ago 10, 2022, 10:45 AM 0
Wage inequality in the developing world: Evidence from Latin America by Carlos Rodríguez-Castelán, Luis Felipe López-Calva, Nora Lustig, Daniel Valderrama published by Review of Development Economics (7/2022). We study the dynamics of wage inequality in Latin America in the…
Public Expenditure and Inclusive Growth – A Survey by Younes Zouhar, Jon Jellema, Nora Lustig, and Mohamed Trabelsi published by IMF (3/2021). This paper explores the role of public expenditure in fostering inclusive growth. It starts with a presentation…
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The Impact of COVID-19 Lockdowns and Expanded Social Assistance on Inequality, Poverty and Mobility in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia and Mexico (Lustig et al.)
fev 6, 2021, 10:48 AM 0
The Impact of COVID-19 Lockdowns and Expanded Social Assistance on Inequality, Poverty and Mobility in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia and Mexico by Nora Lustig, Valentina Martinez Pabon, Federico Sanz and Stephen D. Younger published by Center for Global Development (10/2020)….