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Personal Income Tax Reform and Revenue Potential in Transition

Bogetic, Zeljko; Hassan, Fareed - EconWPA - 2005

The paper uses the 1992 household survey for Bulgaria to show poor revenue performance of the income tax structure prevailing in 1992, which did not take into account the underlying distribution of income. The paper shows that Bulgaria can benefit from a much lower and simpler income tax rate...

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Pobreza, Deforestación y Pérdida de la Biodiversidad en Guatemala

Loening, Ludger J.; Markussen, Michael - EconWPA - 2003

This paper explores the causes of deforestation and biodiversity loss in Guatemala and is organized into 4 parts. First …, an overview about deforestation in Guatemala from 1950-2000 is provided, and the relationship between deforestation and … countryside. In particular, the paper concludes that for the case of Guatemala strengthening the rural non- farm sector and human …

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Pobreza, Deforestación y Pérdida de la Biodiversidad en

Loening, Ludger J.; Markussen, Michael - EconWPA - 2003

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Pobreza, Deforestación y Pérdida de la Biodiversidad en

Loening, Ludger J.; Markussen, Michael - EconWPA - 2003

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Economic Analysis of Rural Land Administration Projects

Pagiola, Stefano - EconWPA - 2004

As part of its efforts to improve the rural economies of its client countries, the World Bank is supporting programs to strengthen land administration and undertake land reform. Land administration projects can include a variety of activities. Usually, the most expensive and that which is most...

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The Latin American and Caribbean Energy Review 2003

Garrón, Mauricio; Villarreal, Alejandro; Chiliquinga, Byron - EconWPA - 2005

The 2003 Energy review,contains information about the 2003 energy situation of each of our member countries, regional data, as well as economic and social indicators corrected and extended through historical series. It presents and innovative structure for analysis that allows the reader to...

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The Impact of Education on Economic Growth in Guatemala: A Time- Series Analysis Applying an Error-Correction Methodology

Loening, Ludger J. - EconWPA - 2002

This paper investigates the impact of human capital on economic growth in Guatemala through the application of an error …

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Poverty, Inequality, and Redistribution Under Lexicographic Social Welfare

Briones, Roehlano M. - EconWPA - 2004

. However, the resulting redistribution scheme prioritizes headcount-reducing transfers to the borderline poor over transfers to …-based evaluation function, while the second rank criterion corresponds to an evaluation function that exhibits DLP. The redistribution …

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Why we all do care about inequality (but are loath to admit it)

Milanovic, Branko - EconWPA - 2004

This note is motivated by recent arguments made by Martin Feldstein in which the relevance of inequality is dismissed (if everybody's income goes up, who cares if inequality is up too?), and the argument is made that only poverty alleviation should matter. This note shows that we all do care...

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Sons of Something: Taxes, Lawsuits and Local Political Control in Sixteenth Century Castile

Drelichman, Mauricio - EconWPA - 2005

The widespread ennoblement of the Spanish bourgeoisie in the sixteenth century has been traditionally considered one of the main causes of Iberian decline. I document and quantify the surge in ennoblement through a new time series of nobility cases preserved in the Archive of the Royal Chancery...

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