Commitment to Equity Paper Series

Many governments try to reduce poverty and inequality through a mixture of taxes, transfers, and public services. Individual policies, such as taxation or cash transfers, are frequently evaluated on how well they address these goals. CGD nonresident fellow Nora Lustig’s Commitment to Equity project assesses overall impact of a country’s fiscal policy package on poverty and inequality

More from the Series

Blog Post

New CGD Partnership: Commitment to Equity Assessments of Impact of Fiscal Policy
Nancy Birdsall
May 08, 2014
I am delighted to announce a new CGD partnership with CGD non-resident fellow Nora Lustig’s brainchild called the Commitment to Equity (CEQ) project. 

May

15

2014

IN PERSON
Washington, DC
12:30—2:00 PM

Consumption Taxes, Inequality and the Poor
Amanda Glassman
et al.
May 07, 2014
Consumption taxes for goods and services—sometimes called Value Added Taxes or VAT—are a common and effective revenue-raising tool used in many developing countries. But in some low- and middle-income countries, all but the poorest 10% of the population pay more in such taxes than they receive in ca...
WORKING PAPER

Comparing the Incidence of Taxes and Social Spending in Brazil and the United States - Working Paper 360
Sean Higgins et al.
March 18, 2014
We perform the first comprehensive fiscal incidence analyses in Brazil and the US, including direct cash and food transfers, targeted housing and heating subsidies, public spending on education and health, and personal income, payroll, corporate income, property, and expenditure taxes.
Blog Post

How Committed to Equity are Latin American Governments?
Nora Lustig
April 09, 2013
Latin America’s distribution of income and wealth has long been the most unequal in the world—but poverty and inequality have been falling consistently since 2000 in most countries of the region. What has changed in Latin America?