Taxation And Inequality In Latin America
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| Author | : María Fernanda Valdés Valencia |
| Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
| Total Pages | : 170 |
| Release | : 2016-09-13 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1317069730 |
This book examines the role of tax policy in the incidence of socio-economic inequality. With a focus on Latin American, the author demonstrates that while inequality has decreased remarkably in the last decade – during the very period in which inequality was increasing almost everywhere else in the world – this reduction cannot be attributed to a better use of tax policy. Offering both quantitative and qualitative reviews of tax policies pursued by Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru over the last two decades, Reducing Inequality in Latin America contends that these countries continue to make insufficient use taxation measures in combating startlingly high levels of inequality. Drawing on legal texts, interviews with researchers and experts in the field, and official monetary statistics to obtain a complete picture of how discretionary tax policy has been pursued in the region, this volume engages with a range of recent economic theories to argue for the importance of using the tax system to reduce inequalities, whilst also offering new methods for measuring tax policy in subsequent research. As such, it will appeal both to scholars of social science and policy makers with interests in economics, social inequality, public policy and international political economy.
| Author | : Tasha Fairfield |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 365 |
| Release | : 2015-03-05 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1107088372 |
This book identifies sources of power that help business and economic elites influence policy decisions.
| Author | : Gustavo Flores-Macias |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 285 |
| Release | : 2019-06-27 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1108474578 |
Offers a comprehensive, region-wide analysis of the politics of taxation in Latin America to make reforms politically palatable and sustainable.
| Author | : Mr.Santiago Acosta Ormaechea |
| Publisher | : International Monetary Fund |
| Total Pages | : 36 |
| Release | : 2012-10-26 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 161635917X |
We investigate the relation between changes in tax composition and long-run economic growth using a new dataset covering a broad cross-section of countries with different income levels. We specifically consider 69 countries with at least 20 years of observations on total tax revenue during the period 1970-2009—21 high-income, 23 middle-income and 25 low-income countries. To our knowledge this is the most comprehensive and up-to-date dataset on tax composition and growth. We find that increasing income taxes while reducing consumption and property taxes is associated with slower growth over the long run. We also find that: (1) among income taxes, social security contributions and personal income taxes have a stronger negative association with growth than corporate income taxes; (2) a shift from income taxes to property taxes has a strong positive association with growth; and (3) a reduction in income taxes while increasing value added and sales taxes is also associated with faster growth.
| Author | : Giovanni Andrea Cornia |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 402 |
| Release | : 2014 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 0198701802 |
This volume documents and explains the reduction of income inequality that has taken place in the majority of Latin American countries over the last decade.
| Author | : Diego Sánchez-Ancochea |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 217 |
| Release | : 2020-12-10 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1838606254 |
From the United States to the United Kingdom and from China to India, growing inequality has led to social discontent and the emergence of populist parties, also contributing to economic crises. We urgently need a better understanding of the roots and costs of these income gaps. The Costs of Inequality draws on the experience of Latin America, one of the most unequal regions of the world, to demonstrate how inequality has hampered economic growth, contributed to a lack of good jobs, weakened democracy, and led to social divisions and mistrust. In turn, low growth, exclusionary politics, violence and social mistrust have reinforced inequality, generating various vicious circles. Latin America thus provides a disturbing image of what the future may hold in other countries if we do not act quickly. It also provides some useful lessons on how to fight income concentration and build more equitable societies.
| Author | : Luis Bértola |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 419 |
| Release | : 2017-01-25 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 3319446215 |
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book brings together a range of ideas and theories to arrive at a deeper understanding of inequality in Latin America and its complex realities. To so, it addresses questions such as: What are the origins of inequality in Latin America? How can we create societies that are more equal in terms of income distribution, gender equality and opportunities? How can we remedy the social divide that is making Latin America one of the most unequal regions on earth? What are the roles played by market forces, institutions and ideology in terms of inequality? In this book, a group of global experts gathered by the Institute for the Integration of Latin America and the Caribbean (INTAL), part of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), show readers how various types of inequality, such as economical, educational, racial and gender inequality have been practiced in countries like Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Mexico and many others through the centuries. Presenting new ideas, new evidence, and new methods, the book subsequently analyzes how to move forward with second-generation reforms that lay the foundations for more egalitarian societies. As such, it offers a valuable and insightful guide for development economists, historians and Latin American specialists alike, as well as students, educators, policymakers and all citizens with an interest in development, inequality and the Latin American region.
| Author | : Gabriel Ondetti |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 333 |
| Release | : 2021-01-28 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1108830854 |
Contemporary tax burden differences in Latin America are a function of historical threats to private property.
| Author | : Mr. Ravi Balakrishnan |
| Publisher | : International Monetary Fund |
| Total Pages | : 123 |
| Release | : 2021-04-26 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1484326091 |
Over the past decades, inequality has risen not just in advanced economies but also in many emerging market and developing economies, becoming one of the key global policy challenges. And throughout the 20th century, Latin America was associated with some of the world’s highest levels of inequality. Yet something interesting happened in the first decade and a half of the 21st century. Latin America was the only region in the World to have experienced significant declines in inequality in that period. Poverty also fell in Latin America, although this was replicated in other regions, and Latin America started from a relatively low base. Starting around 2014, however, and even before the COVID-19 pandemic hit, poverty and inequality gains had already slowed in Latin America and, in some cases, gone into reverse. And the COVID-19 shock, which is still playing out, is likely to dramatically worsen short-term poverty and inequality dynamics. Against this background, this departmental paper investigates the link between commodity prices, and poverty and inequality developments in Latin America.
| Author | : Philip Fehling |
| Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
| Total Pages | : 239 |
| Release | : 2023-05-12 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1000880893 |
Taxation and Inequality in Latin America takes a heterodox political economy approach, focusing on Latin America, where current problems of taxation have existed for a century and great wealth contrasts with abject poverty. The book analyzes the relation of natural resource wealth, allocational politics and the limited role of taxation for redistribution, and progressive resource mobilization. By drawing on the political economy of tax regimes, the book considers the specific conditions of taxation in Latin America, which apply to a large part of the Global South and more than 100 countries specializing in the extraction and export of raw materials. This book will cover: taxation and the dominance of raw material export sectors; taxation and allocational politics; new perspectives on political economy and tax regimes. Scholars and advanced students of political economy, political science, development studies, and fiscal sociology will find several key issues in tax research from a novel angle. The book provides an analytical orientation that relates central questions of taxation to patterns of regional political economy, thereby opening up the debate with tax scholars from other world regions of the Global South.
