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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| description | 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. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-6920ff22230048d5b37bfdbbbb4777ab2023-05-09T07:34:26ZengUniversidade Federal do Rio de JaneiroRevista de Economia Contemporânea1980-55272023-05-012710.1590/198055272701A UNIVERSAL BASIC INCOME FOR BRAZIL: FISCAL AND DISTRIBUTIONAL EFFECTS OF ALTERNATIVE SCHEMESRozane Bezerra de Siqueirahttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-4731-574XJosé Ricardo Bezerra Nogueirahttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-7754-395XABSTRACT 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.http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1415-98482023000100206&lng=en&tlng=enUniversal basic incomeinequalitypovertymicrosimulation |
| spellingShingle | Rozane Bezerra de Siqueira José Ricardo Bezerra Nogueira A UNIVERSAL BASIC INCOME FOR BRAZIL: FISCAL AND DISTRIBUTIONAL EFFECTS OF ALTERNATIVE SCHEMES Revista de Economia Contemporânea Universal basic income inequality poverty microsimulation |
| title | A UNIVERSAL BASIC INCOME FOR BRAZIL: FISCAL AND DISTRIBUTIONAL EFFECTS OF ALTERNATIVE SCHEMES |
| title_full | A UNIVERSAL BASIC INCOME FOR BRAZIL: FISCAL AND DISTRIBUTIONAL EFFECTS OF ALTERNATIVE SCHEMES |
| title_fullStr | A UNIVERSAL BASIC INCOME FOR BRAZIL: FISCAL AND DISTRIBUTIONAL EFFECTS OF ALTERNATIVE SCHEMES |
| title_full_unstemmed | A UNIVERSAL BASIC INCOME FOR BRAZIL: FISCAL AND DISTRIBUTIONAL EFFECTS OF ALTERNATIVE SCHEMES |
| title_short | A UNIVERSAL BASIC INCOME FOR BRAZIL: FISCAL AND DISTRIBUTIONAL EFFECTS OF ALTERNATIVE SCHEMES |
| title_sort | universal basic income for brazil fiscal and distributional effects of alternative schemes |
| topic | Universal basic income inequality poverty microsimulation |
| url | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1415-98482023000100206&lng=en&tlng=en |
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