Explaining low redistributive impact in Bolivia

Verónica Paz Arauco, George Gray Molina Author-Workplace-United Nations Development Programme's (UNDP's), Wilson Jiménez Pozo and Ernesto Yáñez Aguilar
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Verónica Paz Arauco: Instituto Alternativo
Wilson Jiménez Pozo: Fundación Aru
Ernesto Yáñez Aguilar: Instituto Alternativo

No 6, Commitment to Equity (CEQ) Working Paper Series from Tulane University, Department of Economics

Abstract: Despite an increase of social spending of about 3 percentage points with respect to GDP between 2007 and 2009, fiscal policy in Bolivia had a low redistributive impact. This paper analyzes the fiscal incidence of monetary and in-kind transfers, taxes and subsidies. The obstacles to further redistributive impact are significant leakages to the non-poor and the small size of the transfers. Fiscal incidence on poverty and income inequality could increase with better targeting to the poor, by increasing the size of the transfers and/or by making the existing tax system more progressive.

Keywords: Bolivia; fiscal incidence; inequality; poverty; redistribution. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H2 H5 I3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 17 pages
Date: 2012-11, Revised 2013-04
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Published in Commitment to Equity, October 2012, pages 1-17

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