Abstract
It is shown that, in a small open country, government policies restricted to changes in the existing commodity tax, tariff or transfer structures can be used to reduce the degree of economic inequality. A sufficient condition for the existence of inequality reducing policy reforms is that the preferences and initial endowments of the privileged and the deprived differ significantly.
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