Tax Reform, Income Distribution and Poverty in Brazil: An Applied General Equilibrium Analysis
- Escola Superior de Agricultura “Luiz de Queiroz”-ESALQ, University of São Paulo-USP, Brazil
- Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Paraná – UNIOESTE, Brazil
- Universidade Estadual de Londrina – UEL, Brazil
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as: J. B de de Souza Ferreira Filho, C. V dos Santos, S. M do Prado Lima; 2010; Tax Reform, Income Distribution and Poverty in Brazil: An Applied General Equilibrium Analysis; International Journal of Microsimulation; 3(1); 114-117.
doi: 10.34196/ijm.00030
Tables
Table 1
Model results
| Experiment | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | |
| Indirect tax collection loss (millions R$) | −7,009.0 | −2,185.0 |
| Poor households (%) | −0.86 | −0.46 |
| Poor persons (HR) (%) | −0.91 | −0.51 |
| Average poverty gap | −1.46 | −0.63 |
| Average squared poverty gap (FGT) | −1.40 | −0.64 |
| GINI index | −0.04 | −0.06 |
| Households leaving poverty (count) | −135,552 | −76,882 |
Table 2
Model results: Variation in the number of poor households, by income class.
| Experiment 1 | Experiment 2 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Income class | Real income | House-holds (count) | Real income | House-holds (count) |
| (poorest) | ||||
| 1 POF[1] | 2.46 | −12,928 | 0.824 | −6,817 |
| 2 POF[2] | 2.06 | −8,770 | 0.637 | −5,245 |
| 3 POF[3] | 1.94 | −39,098 | 0.635 | −14,963 |
| 4 POF[4] | 1.75 | −42,576 | 0.589 | −27,733 |
| 5 POF[5] | 1.65 | −32,065 | 0.553 | −23,741 |
| 6 POF[6] | 1.54 | −5,090 | 0.524 | −1,713 |
| 7 POF[7] | 1.32 | 1,340 | 0.458 | 751 |
| 8 POF[8] | 1.03 | 1,413 | 0.395 | 924 |
| 9 POF[9]* | 1.06 | 1,233 | 0.383 | 850 |
| 10 POF[10] (richest) | 0.70 | 989 | 0.294 | 825 |
| Total (households) | − | −135,552 | − | −76,862 |
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