Fiscal System 2.0: Achieving Redistribution and Sustainability
October 18, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Mānoa Campus, East-West Center, Research Program, Burns Hall, Room 3012
Fiscal System 2.0: Achieving Redistribution and Sustainability
Ricardo Cant脙潞
Visiting Scholar, East-West Center
Ph.D. candidate in Public Policy, Tecnol脙鲁gico de Monterrey
Tuesday, October 18, 2016 | 12:00 noon to 1:00pm
John A. Burns Hall, Room 3012 (3rd floor)
As age increases, individuals' economic behaviors and decisions change. Consequently, from a fiscal perspective, a country's taxable resources and social service demands change as well, driven by the always-present demographic transitions. So, if a fiscal system is not properly attuned to face changes in population structure, its sustainability芒鈧溍⑩偓鈥渋.e. the public indebtedness芒鈧溍⑩偓鈥渁nd its redistribution design芒鈧溍⑩偓鈥渋.e. the income equality intent芒鈧溍⑩偓鈥渃ould be jeopardized and at stake. The age or generational dimension of the economies can help build projections芒鈧溍⑩偓鈥渘ot predictions芒鈧溍⑩偓鈥渙f such changes in behavior and, therefore, of shifts in resources and services. Long-term financial assessments of public policies must continually be undertaken to adjust them, if necessary, with the goal of reducing future imbalances and, therefore, debt dependency. Hence, a demographic assessment of changing individual needs for public resources will be used to project demands on Mexico芒鈧劉s fiscal system which must adapt to the country芒鈧劉s aging population structure in order to be sustainable.
Ricardo Cant a Ph.D. candidate at the Technologic de Monterrey, is also the co-founder of an NGO (www.ciep.mx), based in Mexico City, that promotes understanding and enhances public debates through research, software innovation, and creative dissemination regarding the Mexican government芒鈧劉s public policies. His primary goal is to close the knowledge gap among policymakers and the public about the use, efficiency, cost, and redistribution of economic resources. Debt and inequality are their focal topics of interest, and he is programming an interactive website where people can change key parameters of the Mexican fiscal system and, consequently, recognize the long- and short-term effects of such changes.
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East-West Center, Research Program, Mānoa Campus
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