Revista CEPAL no.116

The redistributive potential of taxation in Latin America

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…

El potencial redistributivo de la fiscalidad en América Latina

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 …

The United Nations regional commissions and the post-2015 development agenda: Moving to deliver on a transformative and ambitious agenda

Las comisiones regionales de las Naciones Unidas y la agenda para el desarrollo después de 2015: acciones para cumplir con una agenda transformativa y ambiciosa

Global financial rulemaking and small economies

This paper addresses some unintended consequences of global financial regulation and international tax evasion prevention and their impact on small economies. It explores how failure to recognize countries’ differing access to finance and varying costs of funding as well as the high costs of complying with financial regulations may overlook some unintended consequences, especially on smaller island countries Then, it discusses the global financial architecture and governance of standard setting bodies and the actions taken to improve representation and legitimacy and remediate some of the unin…

Data and Statistics in the Caribbean

Statistics provide an interpretation and summary of data.…

Statistical report of the Brazilian economy, July 2015

Informe estadístico de la economía brasileña, julio 2015

Informe estatístico da economía brasileira, julho 2015

ECLAC Executive Secretary opens High Level Meeting in Trinidad and Tobago

“There is no question that the Caribbean is shouldering an unsustainable debt burden which compromises the capacity of the economies for sustained growth and restricts the options available to governments to introduce important social and welfare programmes” the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, said via video conference in opening the 17th meeting of the Monitoring Committee of the Caribbean Development and Cooperation Committee (CDCC) on 26 June, during which Ministers and high-level Government representatives from the…

Los desafíos de América Latina y el Caribe frente al nuevo escenario global

Agreements of the Executive Committee of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean

Acuerdos del Comité Ejecutivo de la Conferencia Estadística de las Américas de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe en su XIV reunión

Statistical Bulletin: International Trade in Goods Latin America and the Caribbean 19

Boletín estadístico de comercio exterior de bienes en América Latina y el Caribe. Segundo trimestre de 2015 (Nro. 19)

Statistical report of the Brazilian economy, June 2015

Statistical report of the Brazilian economy, June 2015

Statistics Organizations from the Region Advance on Preparations for the New Development Agenda

Representatives of statistics organizations held a meeting on May 26-28 at the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), where they made progress on preparations to implement and monitor the new post-2015 development agenda (expected to be approved in September) as well as on the strategic working plan they will carry out in the region over the next decade. Delegates from 19 Latin American and Caribbean countries, as well as from Canada and Spain, attended the Fourteenth Meeting of the Executive Committee of the Statistical Conference of the Americas …

Organismos de estadísticas de la región avanzan en preparativos para la nueva agenda de desarrollo

Representantes de organismos de estadísticas sostuvieron una reunión del 26 al 28 de mayo en la sede de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL) en la que avanzaron en los preparativos para implementar y monitorear la nueva agenda de desarrollo post-2015 que se espera aprobar el próximo septiembre, así como en el plan estratégico de trabajo que desarrollarán en la región durante la próxima década. Delegados de 19 países de América Latina y el Caribe, así como de Canadá y España, asistieron a la XIV Reunión del Comité Ejecutivo de la Conferencia Estadística de las Américas …