This article studies the effect of the stabilization of fiscal expenditure and the anti-cyclical use of taxes as stabilization variables in the Chilean economy, through the calibration of a basic macroeconomic model adapted to the actual conditions of that economy. The results show that some 25% of the variability of economic growth could be eliminated by obviating fiscal cyclical impulses through constant growth of public investment and consumption and through anti-cyclical taxes. On the one hand, it is proposed that a system of stabilization of the growth of fiscal expenditure should be esta…
Los desequilibrios en el sector externo e interno, desencadenados a comienzos de los años ochenta, así como las políticas de ajuste y estabilización aplicadas a lo largo de la década en América Latina, contrapusieron la necesidad de reducir el déficit fiscal y la de compensar las pérdidas de ingreso de los grupos más vulnerables derivadas de la crisis del endeudamiento externo. En este artículo se examina el comportamiento del gasto social en un grupo de países de la región, con el objeto de determinar en qué medida esas políticas afectaron el nivel y la composición del gasto social y, por lo …
The external and internal imbalances that appeared in the early 1980s, together with the adjustment and stabilization policies applied throughout that decade in Latin America, juxtaposed the need to reduce the fiscal deficit with the need to make up for the loss of income sustained by the most vulnerable groups of the population as a consequence of the external debt crisis. This article examines patterns of social expenditure in a number of countries in the region, in an effort to determine how these policies affected the level and composition of social spending and, hence, influenced social p…
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