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dc.titleResearch Insights: Can Governance Factors Explain Persistent Inequality in Latin America?
dc.contributor.authorVlaicu, Razvan
dc.contributor.orgunitDepartment of Research and Chief Economist
dc.coverageLatin America
dc.date.available2024-06-28T00:06:00
dc.date.issue2024-06-28T00:06:00
dc.description.abstractGovernance factors on both the demand side (e.g., low voter trust) and supply side (e.g., vote buying) have limited the extent of redistributive policies in Latin America. Countries with stronger democracies have adopted more redistributive policies, even though post-tax inequality remains high in all the regions democracies. Electoral participation has risen in the more democratic countries, while economically motivated protests have increased in weakly institutionalized settings.
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dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0013043
dc.identifier.urlhttps://publications.iadb.org/publications/english/document/Research-Insights-Can-Governance-Factors-Explain-Persistent-Inequality-in-Latin-America.pdf
dc.identifier.urlhttps://publications.iadb.org/publications/spanish/document/Perspectivas-de-investigacion-pueden-los-factores-de-gobernanza-explicar-la-persistencia-de-la-desigualdad-en-America-Latina.pdf
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherInter-American Development Bank
dc.subjectDemocracy
dc.subjectEquality
dc.subjectTrust
dc.subjectGovernance
dc.subjectEconomy
dc.subjectTaxation
dc.subjectFiscal Policy
dc.subjectPublic Expenditure
dc.subjectSocial Protection
dc.subjectDebtor Finance
dc.subjectEconomic Equality
dc.subject.jelcodeD63 - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
dc.subject.jelcodeD72 - Political Processes: Rent-Seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
dc.subject.jelcodeH20 - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue: General
dc.subject.jelcodeH41 - Public Goods
dc.subject.jelcodeO10 - Economic Development: General
dc.subject.keywordsInequality;policymaking;redistribution;Trust;protests;Latin America
idb.identifier.pubnumberIDB-CB-00944
idb.operationRG-K1199
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