The objective of this paper is to assess the challenges that Puerto Rico’s economy is currently facing. Puerto Rico’s development experience in the postwar period is briefly discussed in order to understand the nature of the island’s current situation. Puerto Rico’s recent economic performance, credit position, debt situation and fiscal conditions, including its complex capital structure and recently released fiscal and economic growth plan are also analyzed.…
This study uses internationally comparable methodologies to analyse the distributional impact of income tax and public transfers in 17 countries of Latin America. The results indicate that fiscal policy plays a limited role in improving the distribution of disposable income; the Gini coefficient decreased by barely three percentage points after direct fiscal action. On average, 61% of this reduction was due to public cash transfers and the rest to direct taxes, reflecting the pressing need for personal income tax to be strengthened. Analysis of household surveys gives an indication of the pote…
En este trabajo se efectúan mediciones, comparables con las metodologías internacionales,
sobre la incidencia distributiva del impuesto a la renta y las transferencias públicas
monetarias en 17 países de América Latina. Los resultados indican que la política fiscal
juega un papel limitado en mejorar la distribución del ingreso disponible; el coeficiente
de Gini baja apenas tres puntos porcentuales luego de la acción fiscal directa. En
promedio, el 61% de esta reducción proviene de las transferencias públicas en efectivo
y el resto de los tributos directos, reflejo del imperativo de fortalecer …
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