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Although there has been a substantive increase in the household income, financial asset-holding and the access to and quality of public services since the first free elections in 1994, the current (2011) unemployment rate is 21 per cent and over two-thirds of the population still live below the poverty line.
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One of the measures is another increase to the financial transactions tax on foreign investments into fixed income, Barros reports.
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To increase the plan's progressivity the panel added a 15% tax on financial income, though it allows three sorts of tax-free savings accounts.
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The most fruitful reform, notes Lardy, would be to end financial repression by liberalizing interest rates, which would increase real rates on deposits, thereby decreasing saving if the income effect is strong, and increasing consumption.
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