In the current system of national accounts, they are accounted for as non-profit or charitable institutions. Such deficiencies remain a decisive factor in the region’s high levels of poverty. Primary income distribution is corrected through wealth redistribution schemes which can function provided that there is a revenue collection system which taxes current income, wealth, profits and consumption and which, for workers, includes the obligation to contribute a proportion of their income to finance benefits and transfers to be paid when their working lives have come to an end. There are also voluntary, solidarity-based redistributive mechanisms, which involve not only gifts among private households but also participation by community organizations.