Fiscal Panorama of Latin America and the Caribbean 2020: Fiscal Policy Amid the Crisis Arising from the Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Pandemic / United Nations.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

United Nations

Contributor:

SourceOECD (Online service)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public health.

Economic and Social Development.

Physical Description:

1 online resource, (157 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York : United Nations, 2020.

System Details:

data file

Summary:

The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has generated a health, human and economic crisis without precedent in the past century. The region has responded rapidly, adopting packages of fiscal measures of diverse magnitude and scope. In this context, fiscal policy must play a key role in mitigating the human and economic impact in the short term, while also continuing to provide the impulse for achieving sustainable and inclusive growth in a post-COVID-19 world. As well as analysing the fiscal policy challenges of the current crisis, the Fiscal Panorama of Latin America and the Caribbean, 2020 provides a broad overview of the problems of tax evasion in the region. It looks at the challenges of measuring tax evasion and the measures the countries are taking to tackle it. It also compares the functional allocation of public expenditure in the countries of the region, as a factor that has implications for the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals.

Contents:

Fiscal policy and the challenges posed by the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic

Foreword

Public spending as a driving force for inclusive economic development and the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals

Tax evasion levels and the key measures to tackle it in the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean

Evolution of public finances in Latin America and the Caribbean in 2019.

Notes:

Title from title screen (viewed May 1, 2017).

ISBN:

9789210047401

9789213582749

Access Restriction:

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