Wielding Influence, Building Inequality: Capture of Tax Policies in Latin America and the Caribbean

Déborah Itriago ()

Development, 2016, vol. 59, issue 1, 151-157

Abstract: Abstract Tax systems in Latin America and the Caribbean reflect the inequality and privilege culture that characterize the region. To understand the process leading to such high inequality, this article emphasizes the role of elites as power forces, able to alter the formal political process to shape unequal development patterns, for instance by blocking progressive tax policies.

Keywords: Elites; Influence; Political process; Inequality; Tax (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1057/s41301-017-0069-x

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