A New Fiscal Pact, Tax Policy Changes and Income Inequality: Latin America During the Last Decade

Giovanni Cornia, Juan Carlos Gómez-Sabaini and Bruno Martorano ()

No wp-2011-070, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: The paper analyses the changes in tax policy, tax/GDP ratios, tax incidence and income inequality which have taken place in Latin America during the last decade against the background of the changes observed in these variables during the liberal years of the 1980s and 1990s.

Keywords: Equality and inequality; Gross national product; Policy sciences; Taxation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (7)

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.wider.unu.edu/sites/default/files/wp2011-070.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:unu:wpaper:wp-2011-070

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER) Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Siméon Rapin ().