Fiscal Redistribution and Ethnoracial Inequality in Bolivia, Brazil, and Guatemala

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ID18965769
AuthorsNora Lustig (0000-0002-3171-6605, Tulane University, corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume52
Issue2
Pages208-220
Publication date2022-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueLatin American Research Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0023-8791 • E-ISSN: 1542-4278
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.25222/larr.90
OpenAlexW2748387076
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited22

Afro-descendants and indigenous peoples in Latin America face higher poverty rates and are disproportionately represented among the poor. The probability of being poor is between two and three times higher for indigenous and Afro-descendants than whites. Using comparable fiscal incidence analyses for Bolivia, Brazil, and Guatemala, I analyze how much poverty and inequality change in the ethnoracial space after fiscal interventions. Although taxes and transfers tend to reduce the ethnoracial gaps, the change is very small. While per capita cash transfers tend to be higher for the nonwhite population, spending on these programs is too low, especially when compared with the disproportionate number of poor people among nonwhites

Cash transfers · Demographic economics · Development economics · Economic growth · Economic inequality · Economics · Geography · Indigenous · Inequality · Latin Americans · Per capita · Political science · Politics · Population · Poverty · Redistribution (election) · Sociology · Culture, Economy, and Development Studies · Demography · Income, Poverty, and Inequality · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare

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