Addressing inequality fosters an enabling environment for innovation and capacity-building amid technological advancements, leading to economic growth and the strengthening of political institutions.
Despite the increased focus on income inequality in recent years, its measurement remains a topic of discussion. This document highlights the need to improve the availability and timeliness of household surveys, national accounts and income tax records for a more complete picture of income distribution. Integrating these data sources through the construction of “distributional national accounts” p…
Dear Executive Secretaries of the sister UN Regional Economic Commissions,
Dear Selwin Hart, UN Assistant Secretary-General for the Climate Action Team (CAT)
Dear Thilmeeza Hussain, Director of the Regional Commissions New York Office,
Distinguished guests, colleagues, and participants,
Welcome to this side-event on how Critical Energy Transition Minerals can accelerate progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), convened under the auspices of the United Nations Regional Economic Commissions.
Today, we gather to address a defining challenge of our time: powering and enabling the…
This work analyses the effects of wage earners’ income tax on vertical equity and income distribution in El Salvador, by assessing the two most recent changes in income tax —the 2011 reform and the 2015 amendment— in light of a comparative methodology based on indices of tax progressivity and redistributive power. The impact of these measures is estimated using microsimulation techniques. The results show that the tax structure in 2017 is weakly progressive and has no impact on income distribution in El Salvador. On the contrary, the differential treatment that the tax system affords to high i…
En el presente trabajo se analizan los efectos del impuesto sobre la renta de las personas asalariadas sobre la equidad vertical y la distribución del ingreso en El Salvador. Para ello, se evalúan sus dos últimas enmiendas —la reforma de 2011 y la modificación de 2015— a la luz de una metodología comparativa basada en índices de progresividad y capacidad redistributiva de los impuestos. Con técnicas de microsimulación, se estima el impacto de dichas medidas. Los resultados muestran que la estructura del impuesto en 2017 es débilmente progresiva y tiene nulos impactos en la distribución del ing…
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