12-December-2017
English
22-June-2016
English
18-September-2015
English
17-July-2013
English, PDF, 2,442kb
Fiscal policy plays an essential role in reducing income inequality in OECD countries while this effect tends to be lower in Latin American economies. This paper adds to the discussion by looking at the issue from a tax-benefit analysis perspective; namely by estimating the impact of the welfare system on the different income groups in Chile and Mexico.
16-April-2021
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Mexico's tax-to-GDP ratio in 2019 (16.5%) was below the LAC average (22.9%)¹ in this year's Revenue Statistics in Latin America and the Caribbean publication by 6.5 percentage points and below the OECD average (33.8%).