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Taxes, Status Goods, and Piracy
Balestrino, Alessandro - CESifo - 2012
This paper studies the design of indirect redistributive taxation and of corrective taxation, as well as the formation of equilibrium indirect tax policies via a political process, in the presence of status goods, allowing for the possibility that illegal copies of those goods may be purchased...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009416119
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The Efficient Side of Progressive Income Taxation
Corneo, Giacomo - CESifo - 2000
This paper examines the allocative implications of progressive income taxation when individuals care about their … relative income. It shows that tax progressivity might improve efficiency, and the more so in egalitarian economies …. Introducing a progressive income tax can yield a Pareto improvement if pre-tax income is evenly distributed. Implementing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005406276
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Community Midwifery Education Program in Afghanistan
Mohmand, Khalil Ahmad - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2013
admission criteria for students; and establishment of a strong accreditation board to ensure qualified midwives were trained by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010770371
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Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in Nicaragua: An Analysis Using a Sexual and Reproductive Health Framework and Human Rights
Gordillo-Tobar, Amparo; Beneitez, Geraldine; Ortega, Juana - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014
In an effort to integrate operational and analytical work on adolescents and youth sexual and reproductive health (SRH) and Human Rights in Nicaragua, the World Bank, in coordination with the Nicaraguan Ministry of Health, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), and the United Nations...
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Population, Family Planning, and Reproductive Health Policy Harmonization in Bangladesh
El-Saharty, Sameh; Ahsan, Karar Zunaid; May, John F. - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014
Over the past 30 years, Bangladesh has achieved significant economic and human development progress, and demonstrated impressive policy as well as programmatic commitment to lowering the fertility level. However, its future socioeconomic prospects may be hampered by its population growth rate,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011076254
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Involving Men in Reproductive and Fertility Issues: Insights from Punjab
Kamran, Iram; Khan, Mumraiz; Tasneem, Zeba - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014
Drawing on three sources, a 2013 qualitative study in four districts of Punjab province; a targeted analysis of the baseline and end line surveys of the Family Advancement for Life and Health (FALAH 2007-2012) project; and the Pakistan Demographic Health Survey (PDHS) of 1990-1991 and of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010829324
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The Trade-off between Intra- and Intergenerational Equity in Climate Policy
Kverndokk, Snorre; Nævdal, Eric; Nøstbakken, Linda - CESifo - 2013
This paper focuses on two equity dimensions of climate policy, intra- and intergenerational, and analyzes the implications of equity preferences on climate policy, and on the production and consumption patterns in rich and poor countries. We develop a dynamic two-region model, in which each...
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Combining Rights and Welfarism: A New Approach to Intertemporal Evaluation of Social Alternatives
Long, Ngo Van; Martinet, Vincent - CESifo - 2012
We propose a new criterion which reflects both the concern for welfare (utility) and the concern for rights in the evaluation of economic development paths. The concern for rights is captured by a pre-ordering over combinations of thresholds (floors or ceilings on various quantitative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009651182
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Climate Policy under Sustainable Discounted Utilitarianism
Dietz, Simon; Asheim, Geir B. - CESifo - 2011
Empirical evaluation of policies to mitigate climate change has been largely confined to the application of discounted utilitarianism (DU). DU is controversial, both due to the conditions through which it is justified and due to its consequences for climate policies, where the discounting of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009293489
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A Complete and Strongly Anonymous Leximin Relation on Infinite Streams
Asheim, Geir B.; Zuber, Stéphane - CESifo - 2011
Various extensions of the leximin order to the infinite dimensional setting have been suggested. They relax completeness and strong anonymity. Instead, by removing sensitivity to generations at infinite rank this paper defines a complete and strongly anonymous leximin relation on infinite...
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