in the current system of national accounts they are accounted for as nonprofit 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 solidaritybased redistributive mechanisms which involve not only gifts among private households but also participation by community organizations