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How substitutable is natural capital ?
Markandya, Anil - 2006
"One of the recurring themes in the sustainability literature has been the legitimacy of using an economic framework to account for natural resources. This paper examines the potential for substituting between different inputs in the generation of income, where the inputs include natural...
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Raskin Subsidized Rice Delivery
World Bank - 2012
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The world trade organization's Doha cotton initiative : a tale of two issues
Anderson, Kym - 2006
and tariffs-for cotton it is subsidy reductions rather than tariff cuts that would make by far the largest impact. For Sub …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522143
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The distributional incidence of residential water and electricity subsidies
Wodon, Quentin (contributor) - 2006
subsidies for water and electricity services. Their analysis of a wide range of subsidy models from around the developing world … shows that the most common form of utility subsidy-quantity-based subsidies delivered through the tariff structure … effectiveness of consumption subsidy schemes to reach the poor. Simulations suggest that connection subsidies are an attractive …
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Regional subsidies and industrial prospects of lagging regions
Lall, Somik V. - 2006
"Large and sustained differences in economic performance across regions of developing countries have long provided motivation for fiscal incentives designed to encourage firm entry in lagging areas. But empirical evidence in support of these policies has been weak at best. The authors undertake...
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Why governments should stop non-social subsidies : measuring their consequences for rural Latin America
Lápez, Ramán - 2005
"The provision of public goods and the amelioration of market failure are the classical justifications for government intervention in the economy. In reality, (1) governments intervene in markets that are not affected by failure, and (2) a large share of the government resources is spent in...
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Water, electricity, and the poor : who benefits from utility subsidies?
Komives, Kristin (contributor) - 2005
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