A Universal Basic Income For Brazil: Fiscal and Distributional Effects of Alternative Schemes

• Tác giả: Rozane Bezerra de Siqueira, Jose Ricardo Bezerra Nogueira
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
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• Thông tin xuất bản: 2021
• Bộ sưu tập: Metadata
• ID: 166498

Tóm tắt

The outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic 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 which partially replace the existing tax-transfer system. The results indicate that the introduction of a UBI/Flat Tax system in the country could be both extremely effective in reducing poverty and inequality and economically viable.