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

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dc.contributor.authorSkoufias, Emmanuel
dc.contributor.authorShapiro, Joseph
dc.date.accessioned2012-03-30T07:30:32Z
dc.date.available2012-03-30T07:30:32Z
dc.date.issued2010
dc.description.abstractThis 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 characteristic. Our findings suggest that public transfers can be effective instruments to redistribute income to the poor. Despite coverage and distributional patterns that favor the poor, small unit subsidies limit the redistributive, poverty and inequality impacts of even the most targeted social assistance programs.en
dc.identifier.citationWorld Development
dc.identifier.issn0305750X
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/4952
dc.language.isoEN
dc.relation.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo
dc.rights.holderWorld Bank
dc.subjectPersonal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions D310
dc.subjectInternational Economic Order F020
dc.subjectTaxation and Subsidies: Externalities
dc.subjectRedistributive Effects
dc.subjectEnvironmental Taxes and Subsidies H230
dc.subjectMeasurement and Analysis of Poverty I320
dc.subjectWelfare and Poverty: Government Programs
dc.subjectProvision and Effects of Welfare Programs I380
dc.subjectEconomic Development: Human Resources
dc.subjectHuman Development
dc.subjectIncome Distribution
dc.subjectMigration O150
dc.titleGlobalization and the Role of Public Transfers in Redistributing Income in Latin America and the Caribbeanen
dc.title.alternativeWorld Developmenten
dc.typeJournal Articleen
dc.typeArticle de journalfr
dc.typeArtículo de revistaes
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okr.identifier.externaldocumentum1592
okr.journal.nbpages895-907
okr.language.supporteden
okr.peerreviewAcademic Peer Review
okr.region.geographicalLatin America
okr.region.geographicalCaribbean
okr.relation.associatedurlhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2010.02.014
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okr.volume38
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