The role of the fiscal policy in reducing Latin America’s inequality in the 21st century
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Raíssa Curto Tochetto
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- Latin America, income inequality, fiscal policy, fiscal reform
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Latin America saw in the last decades a huge trend of falling income inequality, that came from a consistent economic growth and adoption of income redistribution policies. However, analyzing the income distribution from the top of the concentration pyramid, this falling trend do not hold and is very variable in the region. In this way, in the light of the recent literature on combating inequality, we seek to understand the paper of tributary fiscal policy on the latin american inequality in the first decades of the XXI century. We understand that, even if it is not the main determinant factor in the inequality, the progressive tributary policy has an important role on the combat to the excessive income concentration. However, it is not on the toolkit adopted by the progressists governments.
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The role of the fiscal policy in reducing Latin America’s inequality in the 21st century. (2019). Journal MERCOSUR of Social Policies, 3, 85-100. https://doi.org/10.28917/ism.2019-v3-85