A UNIVERSAL BASIC INCOME FOR BRAZIL: FISCAL AND DISTRIBUTIONAL EFFECTS OF ALTERNATIVE SCHEMES

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 microsim...

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Main Authors: Rozane Bezerra de Siqueira, José Ricardo Bezerra Nogueira
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro 2023-05-01
Series:Revista de Economia Contemporânea
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1415-98482023000100206&lng=en&tlng=en