A universal basic income for Brazil: fiscal and distributional effects of alternative schemes

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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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Rozane Bezerra de Siqueira

Senior Professor, Department of Economics, Federal University of Pernambuco.

José Ricardo Bezerra Nogueira

Senior Professor, Department of Economics, Federal University of Pernambuco.

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2023-11-23

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Rev. Econ. Contemp., v. 27, 2023

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Derechos de autor 2023 Rozane Bezerra de Siqueira, José Ricardo Bezerra Nogueira

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