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Dando com um mão e tirando com a outra
[Giving with one hand and taking away with the other]

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  • Carlândia Brito Santos Fernandes
  • Mariana Silva Cunha
  • Marcos Roberto Vasconcelos

Abstract

This study analyses the impact of fiscal policy on income inequality for the Brazilian states, over the period 2004-2014. With system GMM we find robust evidence that while increases in total expenditures have a positive impacton inequality, total revenues have a negative effect, thus the net effects may not be positive. With a particular focus on disaggregated expenditures, we also identify that the negative effects that expenditures related to public debt can generate may overcome the positive effects of social expenditures. Therefore, the discussion on how to determine and qualify social spending levels in Brazil, which are necessary to combat poverty and reduce social and income inequalities, is directly related to the revision of the tax collection system

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  • Carlândia Brito Santos Fernandes & Mariana Silva Cunha & Marcos Roberto Vasconcelos, 2019. "Dando com um mão e tirando com a outra [Giving with one hand and taking away with the other]," Estudios Economicos, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Departamento de Economia, vol. 36(73), pages 43-70, july-dece.
    • Handle: RePEc:uns:esteco:v:36:y:2019:i:73:p:43-70
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    Keywords

    politica fiscal; gasto Público; desigualdade; estados brasileiros;
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    JEL classification:

    • O10 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - General
    • O15 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
    • E62 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook - - - Fiscal Policy; Modern Monetary Theory

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