A UNIVERSAL BASIC INCOME FOR BRAZIL: FISCAL AND DISTRIBUTIONAL EFFECTS OF ALTERNATIVE SCHEMES
Revista de Economia Contemporanea
; 27, 2023.
Article
in English
| Scopus | ID: covidwho-20234715
ABSTRACT
The Covid-19 pandemic outbreak has led to an increasing interest in universal basic income (UBI) proposals, as it exposed the inadequacy of traditional welfare systems to provide basic financial security to a large share of the population. In this paper, we use a static tax-benefit microsimulation model to analyse the fiscal and distributional effects of the hypothetical implementation in Brazil of alternative UBI schemes that partially replace the existing tax-transfer system. The results indicate that introducing a UBI/Flat Tax system in the country could be both extremely effective in reducing poverty and inequality and economically viable. © 2023, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. All rights reserved.
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South America
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Brazil
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English
Journal:
Revista de Economia Contemporanea
Year:
2023
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