Social Spending, Taxes and Income Redistribution in Uruguay

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ID19917490
AuthorsMarisa Bucheli (0000-0003-0159-4712, World Bank), Nora Lustig (0000-0002-3171-6605, World Bank, corresponding author), M Rossi (0000-0002-4116-922X, World Bank), Florencia Amábile (0000-0002-5489-0665, World Bank)
Year2013
Publication date2013-03-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
PublisherWorld Bank, Washington, DC (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1596/1813-9450-6380
OpenAlexW3123916146
LanguageEN
Citations received6

How much redistribution does Uruguay accomplish through social spending and taxes? How progressive are revenue collection and social spending? A standard fiscal incidence analysis shows that Uruguay achieves a nontrivial reduction in inequality and poverty when all taxes and transfers are combined. In comparison with five other countries in Latin America, it ranks first (poverty reduction) and second (inequality reduction), and first in terms of poverty reduction effectiveness and third in terms of overall (including transfers in-kind) inequality reduction effectiveness. Direct taxes are progressive and indirect taxes are regressive. Social spending on direct transfers, contributory pensions, education and health is quite progressive in absolute terms except for tertiary education, which is almost neutral in relative terms

Development economics · Economic growth · Economic inequality · Economics · Inequality · Latin Americans · Macroeconomics · Political science · Poverty · Public economics · Redistribution (election) · Redistribution of income and wealth · Revenue · Unemployment · Income, Poverty, and Inequality · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare · Taxation and Compliance Studies

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