“…On the poverty impact, results show that although LAC fiscal systems always reduce 2 The studies included in this paper are: Argentina (Lopez del ; Bolivia (Paz Arauco, Jimenez, and Yañez, 2020); Brazil (Pereira et al, 2022); Chile (Martinez-Aguilar, 2020a); Colombia (Melendez and Martinez Pabon, 2019b); Costa Rica (Sauma and Trejos, 2014); Dominican Republic (Aristy-Escuder, 2019); Ecuador (Llerena Pinto et al, 2020); El Salvador ; Guatemala (Cabrera and Moran, 2020a); Honduras (Espino, 2020); Mexico (Scott et al, 2020b); Nicaragua (Cabrera and Moran, 2020b); Panama (Martinez-Aguilar, 2020b); Paraguay (Molinas and Gonzalez, 2023); Peru ; Uruguay (Bucheli, Amarante, and Colafranceschi, 2022); and Venezuela (Molina, 2020). 3 Launched first as a project in 2008, the Commitment to Equity Institute (CEQ) at Tulane University was created in 2015 with the generous support of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.…”