The table does not intend to assess the intensity of the impact on inequality of the different policy recommendations, but to illustrate the direction - either reducing or raising inequality - of growth enhancing structural reforms. Several recommendations have an undetermined impact on inequality. This is due to the fact that a specific policy may produce opposing effects on income inequality, so that the final prevailing effect is unknown (e.g. lowering barriers to competition in network industries, shifting the tax burden from direct to indirect taxes) or because the effect on inequality of a particular policy has not been investigated (e.g. increasing infrastructure spending).