Dando com um mão e tirando com a outra

Giving with one hand and taking away with the other

Carlândia Brito Santos Fernandes (), Marina Da Cunha () and Marcos Vasconcelos ()

Estudios Economicos, 2019, vol. 036 (Nueva Serie), issue 73, 43-70

Abstract: This study analyses the impact of fiscal policy on income inequality for the Brazilian states, over the period 2004-2014. With system GMM we find robust evidence that while increases in total expenditures have a positive impacton inequality, total revenues have a negative effect, thus the net effects may not be positive. With a particular focus on disaggregated expenditures, we also identify that the negative effects that expenditures related to public debt can generate may overcome the positive effects of social expenditures. Therefore, the discussion on how to determine and qualify social spending levels in Brazil, which are necessary to combat poverty and reduce social and income inequalities, is directly related to the revision of the tax collection system

Keywords: politica fiscal; gasto Público; desigualdade; estados brasileiros; fiscal policy; public spending; inequality; brazilian states (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E62 O10 O15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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