This book offers an innovative perspective on the ever-widening gap between the poor and
the state in Latin American politics. It presents a comprehensive analysis of the main social …

How much redistribution and poverty reduction is being accomplished in Latin America
through social spending, subsidies, and taxes? Standard fiscal incidence analyses applied …

Abstract The Palma Proposition is that changes in income or consumption inequality are
(almost) exclusively due to changes in the share of the richest 10 per cent and poorest 40 …

The “Palma” is the ratio of national income shares of the top 10 percent of households to the
bottom 40 percent, reflecting Gabriel Palma's observation of the stability of the “middle” 50 …

We identify a group of people in Latin America that are not poor but not middle class either—
namely “strugglers” in households with daily income per capita between $4 and $10 (at …

This handbook presents a step-by-step guide to applying the incidence analysis used in the
multi-country Commitment to Equity Project (CEQ). We define the pre-and post-net transfer …

1 PUTTING THE GINI BACK IN THE BOTTLE? ‘THE PALMA’ AS A POLICY-RELEVANT
MEASURE OF INEQUALITY Alex Cobham and Andy Sumner 1 Page 1 1 PUTTING THE GINI …

How much redistribution does Uruguay accomplish through social spending and taxes?
How progressive are revenue collection and social spending? What could be done to further …

This article analyzes the fiscal incidence of cash and in-kind transfers, taxes, and subsidies
in Bolivia. Between 2007 and 2009, social spending as a share of gross domestic product …

Abstract Between 2003 and 2010, Latin America experienced a solid record of economic
growth, coupled with a notable reduction in income inequality. The regional Gini coefficient …