Gendered Implications of Tax Reform in Latin America: Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica and Jamaica

Abstract

In Latin American and Caribbean countries, poverty and inequality have been long-standing problems, and the momentous economic and social policy changes over the past two decades have done little to ameliorate them. * The most effective means for reducing class-and gender-based poverty and inequality would be citizenship-based entitlements to basic (i.e. allowing basic subsistence) income support, health care, and education. In advanced industrial societies, public spending is an extremely important instrument for the alleviation of class-and gender-based poverty and inequality (Moller et al.