Globalization and the Role of Public Transfers in Redistributing Income in Latin America and the Caribbean

This paper focuses on measuring the extent to which publicly subsidized transfers in Latin America and the Caribbean redistribute income. The redistributive power of 56 transfers in eight countries is measured by their simulated impacts on poverty and inequality, and by their distributional characte...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Skoufias, Emmanuel, Lindert, Kathy, Shapiro, Joseph
Format: Journal Article
Language:EN
Published: 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/4952