The Impact of Direct Taxes and Monetary Transfers on Income Distribution and Poverty in Argentina

Dario Rossignolo

No 67, Commitment to Equity (CEQ) Working Paper Series from Tulane University, Department of Economics

Abstract: Using standard fiscal incidence analysis, this paper estimates the impact of tax and expenditure policies on income distribution and poverty in Argentina with data from the National Household Survey on Incomes and Expenditures 2012-2013. The results show that fiscal policy has been a powerful tool in reducing inequality and poverty but that the unusually high levels of public spending may make the programs unsustainable. The impact of several policy measures carried out by the government have also been simulated.

Keywords: taxes; public expenditures; inequality; poverty (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D3 H2 I3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 32 pages
Date: 2017-04
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Published in Commitment to Equity, April 2017, pages 1-32

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