Equity and Fiscal Policy : The Income Distribution Effects of Taxation and Social Spending in Central America /

How does fiscal policy fare in improving the underlying income distribution in Central America? We integrate the data from a number of existing tax and public expenditure studies for the countries in the region and find that the distributional effect of taxation is regressive but small. In contrast,...

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Egile nagusia: Cubero, Rodrigo
Beste egile batzuk: Hollar, Ivanna
Formatua: Aldizkaria
Hizkuntza:English
Argitaratua: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2010.
Saila:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2010/112
Sarrera elektronikoa:Full text available on IMF
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