Gabriela Inchauste
Biographic Data
| ID | 4336142 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gabriela Inchauste |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gabriela |
| FAMILY NAME | Inchauste |
| SIGNATURE | INCHAUSTE G |
| AFFILIATIONS | World Bank |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3582-5892 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 38 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The redistributive power of cash transfers vs VAT exemptions
Like high-income countries, low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) offer reduced rates and exemptions on particular goods and services in their value-added tax (VAT) systems. These policies are often motivated by distributional concerns and target items thought to take up a larger share of the budgets of poorer households. This paper explores the effectiveness of such policies in six LMICs. We estimate their impact on tax revenues, inequality a…
The Distributional Impact of Taxes and Social Spending in Croatia
This paper describes the impact of \n fiscal policy on inequality and poverty, and examines recent \n policy changes and whether there is room for an increased \n role for fiscal policy in improving the well-being of the \n poor. Taxes and social spending reduced inequality in \n Croatia; however, once the impacts of indirect taxes are \n considered, the system is unable to reduce poverty, \n especially for families with children and retirees. \n…
The Distributional Impact of Taxes and Transfers
The World Bank has partnered with the Commitment to Equity Institute at Tulane University to implement their diagnostic tool—the Commitment to Equity (CEQ) Assessment—designed to assess how taxation and public expenditures affect income inequality, poverty, and different economic groups. The approach relies on comprehensive fiscal incidence analysis, which measures the contribution of each individual intervention to poverty and inequality reducti…
Understanding Poverty Reduction in Sri Lanka
This paper quantifies the contributions to poverty reduction observed in Sri Lanka between 2002 and 2012/13. The methods adopted for the analysis generate entire counterfactual distributions to account for the contributions of demographics, labor, and non-labor incomes in explaining poverty reduction. The findings show that the most important contributor to poverty reduction was growth in labor income, stemming from an increase in the returns to …
Understanding Changes in Poverty
Understanding Changes in Poverty brings together different methods to decompose the contributions to poverty reduction. A simple approach quantifies the contribution of changes in demographics, employment, earnings, public transfers, and remittances to poverty reduction. A more complex approach quantifies the contributions to poverty reduction from changes in individual and household characteristics, including changes in the sectoral, occupationa…
Is Labor Income Responsible for Poverty Reduction? A Decomposition Approach
Demographics, labor income, public \n transfers, or remittances: Which factor contributes the most \n to observed reductions in poverty? Using counterfactual \n simulations, this paper accounts for the contribution labor \n income has made to the observed changes in poverty over the \n past decade for a set of 16 countries that have experienced \n substantial declines in poverty. In contrast to methods that \n focus on aggregate summary statistic…
Decomposing the Recent Inequality Decline in Latin America
Over the past decade, 12 of 14 Latin American countries have experienced a reduction in inequality. Based on a series of counterfactual simulations, the observed changes in inequality are decomposed in order to identify the main determinants of inequality. In contrast to methods that focus on aggregate summary statistics, the method adopted in this paper generates counterfactual distributions, so that the analysis can account for changes related …
When Job Earnings Are Behind Poverty Reduction
Improvement in labor market conditions \n has been the main explanation behind many of the poverty \n success stories observed in the last decade, that is the \n primary conclusion of an analysis of changes in poverty by \n income source. Changes in labor earnings were the largest \n contributor to poverty reduction for a sample of 16 \n countries where poverty increased substantially. In 10 of \n these countries, labor income explained more than…
Decomposing Distributional Changes in Pakistan
This paper quantifies the contributions \n to distributional changes observed in Pakistan over the last \n decade. In contrast to methods that focus on aggregate \n summary statistics, the method adopted in this paper \n generates entire counterfactual distributions to account for \n the contributions of demographics, labor and non-labor \n incomes in explaining poverty reduction. The results show \n that the most important contributor was the gr…
What is behind the Decline in Poverty since 2000? Evidence from Bangladesh, Peru and Thailand
This paper quantifies the contributions of different factors to poverty reduction observed in Bangladesh, Peru and Thailand over the last decade. In contrast to methods that focus on aggregate summary statistics, the method adopted here generates entire counterfactual distributions to account for the contributions of demographics and income from labor and non-labor sources in explaining poverty reduction. The authors find that the most important …
Inclusión Social en Panamá
Este estudio utiliza una reciente encuesta de hogares para medir los avances en materia de inclusión social durante la última década, incluyendo una revisión de los indicadores de pobreza, estructura del hogar, los activos laborales, de capital humano, físicos, y financieros. Dicha revisión resume las intervenciones del gobierno en salud, educación e infraestructura en los pueblos indígenas a la luz de los impactos sociales observados en los dato…
What causes firms to hide output? The determinants of informality
Helping Countries Develop
Fiscal policy can foster growth and human development through a number of different channels. These include the macroeconomic (for example, through the influence of the budget deficit on growth) as well as the microeconomic (through its influence on the efficiency of resource use). But how precisely do these channels work in developing countries? What kinds of tax and expenditure policies should developing countries implement to help them meet th…
What causes firms to hide output? The determinants of informality
The redistributive power of cash transfers vs VAT exemptions
Like high-income countries, low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) offer reduced rates and exemptions on particular goods and services in their value-added tax (VAT) systems. These policies are often motivated by distributional concerns and target items thought to take up a larger share of the budgets of poorer households. This paper explores the effectiveness of such policies in six LMICs. We estimate their impact on tax revenues, inequality a…
Helping Countries Develop
Fiscal policy can foster growth and human development through a number of different channels. These include the macroeconomic (for example, through the influence of the budget deficit on growth) as well as the microeconomic (through its influence on the efficiency of resource use). But how precisely do these channels work in developing countries? What kinds of tax and expenditure policies should developing countries implement to help them meet th…
What causes firms to hide output? The determinants of informality
Inclusión Social en Panamá
Este estudio utiliza una reciente encuesta de hogares para medir los avances en materia de inclusión social durante la última década, incluyendo una revisión de los indicadores de pobreza, estructura del hogar, los activos laborales, de capital humano, físicos, y financieros. Dicha revisión resume las intervenciones del gobierno en salud, educación e infraestructura en los pueblos indígenas a la luz de los impactos sociales observados en los dato…
When Job Earnings Are Behind Poverty Reduction
Improvement in labor market conditions \n has been the main explanation behind many of the poverty \n success stories observed in the last decade, that is the \n primary conclusion of an analysis of changes in poverty by \n income source. Changes in labor earnings were the largest \n contributor to poverty reduction for a sample of 16 \n countries where poverty increased substantially. In 10 of \n these countries, labor income explained more than…
Decomposing Distributional Changes in Pakistan
This paper quantifies the contributions \n to distributional changes observed in Pakistan over the last \n decade. In contrast to methods that focus on aggregate \n summary statistics, the method adopted in this paper \n generates entire counterfactual distributions to account for \n the contributions of demographics, labor and non-labor \n incomes in explaining poverty reduction. The results show \n that the most important contributor was the gr…
What is behind the Decline in Poverty since 2000? Evidence from Bangladesh, Peru and Thailand
This paper quantifies the contributions of different factors to poverty reduction observed in Bangladesh, Peru and Thailand over the last decade. In contrast to methods that focus on aggregate summary statistics, the method adopted here generates entire counterfactual distributions to account for the contributions of demographics and income from labor and non-labor sources in explaining poverty reduction. The authors find that the most important …
Is Labor Income Responsible for Poverty Reduction? A Decomposition Approach
Demographics, labor income, public \n transfers, or remittances: Which factor contributes the most \n to observed reductions in poverty? Using counterfactual \n simulations, this paper accounts for the contribution labor \n income has made to the observed changes in poverty over the \n past decade for a set of 16 countries that have experienced \n substantial declines in poverty. In contrast to methods that \n focus on aggregate summary statistic…
Decomposing the Recent Inequality Decline in Latin America
Over the past decade, 12 of 14 Latin American countries have experienced a reduction in inequality. Based on a series of counterfactual simulations, the observed changes in inequality are decomposed in order to identify the main determinants of inequality. In contrast to methods that focus on aggregate summary statistics, the method adopted in this paper generates counterfactual distributions, so that the analysis can account for changes related …
Understanding Changes in Poverty
Understanding Changes in Poverty brings together different methods to decompose the contributions to poverty reduction. A simple approach quantifies the contribution of changes in demographics, employment, earnings, public transfers, and remittances to poverty reduction. A more complex approach quantifies the contributions to poverty reduction from changes in individual and household characteristics, including changes in the sectoral, occupationa…
Understanding Poverty Reduction in Sri Lanka
This paper quantifies the contributions to poverty reduction observed in Sri Lanka between 2002 and 2012/13. The methods adopted for the analysis generate entire counterfactual distributions to account for the contributions of demographics, labor, and non-labor incomes in explaining poverty reduction. The findings show that the most important contributor to poverty reduction was growth in labor income, stemming from an increase in the returns to …
The Distributional Impact of Taxes and Social Spending in Croatia
This paper describes the impact of \n fiscal policy on inequality and poverty, and examines recent \n policy changes and whether there is room for an increased \n role for fiscal policy in improving the well-being of the \n poor. Taxes and social spending reduced inequality in \n Croatia; however, once the impacts of indirect taxes are \n considered, the system is unable to reduce poverty, \n especially for families with children and retirees. \n…
The Distributional Impact of Taxes and Transfers
The World Bank has partnered with the Commitment to Equity Institute at Tulane University to implement their diagnostic tool—the Commitment to Equity (CEQ) Assessment—designed to assess how taxation and public expenditures affect income inequality, poverty, and different economic groups. The approach relies on comprehensive fiscal incidence analysis, which measures the contribution of each individual intervention to poverty and inequality reducti…
The redistributive power of cash transfers vs VAT exemptions
Like high-income countries, low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) offer reduced rates and exemptions on particular goods and services in their value-added tax (VAT) systems. These policies are often motivated by distributional concerns and target items thought to take up a larger share of the budgets of poorer households. This paper explores the effectiveness of such policies in six LMICs. We estimate their impact on tax revenues, inequality a…
Economics (11 works) · Economic growth (9 works) · Income, Poverty, and Inequality (9 works) · Development economics (7 works) · Poverty (7 works) · Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth (6 works) · Geography (6 works) · Poverty reduction (5 works) · Demographic economics (4 works) · Labour economics (4 works)