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