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Carbon Pricing at Export Markets : Trade-Related Implications in Trinidad and Tobago

Stepanov, Ilya - 2025

This paper examines the potential impact of border carbon adjustments on Trinidad and Tobago's exports. Despite its marginal contribution to global greenhouse gas emissions, the country's high carbon intensity exposes the economy to global low-carbon transition risks. The paper aims to raise...

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The Complier Pays Principle; The Limits of Fiscal Approaches toward Sustainable Forest Management

Leruth, Luc E.; Paris, R.; Ruzicka, I. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2000

This paper examines the role and impact of taxation on sustainable forest management. It is shown that fiscal instruments neither reinforce nor substitute for traditional regulatory approaches. Far from encouraging more sustainable forest management, fiscal instruments such as an inappropriate...

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Indirect Taxeson International Aviation

Strand, Jon; Keen, Michael - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006

This paper examines the case for internationally coordinated indirect taxes on aviation (as a source of general revenue-not (necessarily) as a source of development finance). The case for such taxes is strong: the tax burden on international aviation is currently limited, yet it contributes...

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Social Capital and Civil Society

Fukuyama, Francis - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2000

Social capital is an instantiated informal norm that promotes cooperation between individuals. In the economic sphere it reduces transaction costs, and in the political sphere it promotes the kind of associational life that is necessary for the success of limited government and modern democracy....

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Optimal Fiscal Policy and the Environment

Ligthart, Johanna Elisabeth - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 1998

the environment, public funds are inexpensive, and public abatement is relatively productive. The analysis also shows that …

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Taxes and Tradable Permits As Instruments for Controlling Pollution; Theory and Practice

Norregaard, John; Reppelin-Hill, Valérie - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2000

This paper examines the relative merits of two dominant economic instruments for reducing pollution—”green” taxes and tradable permits. Theoretically, the two instruments share many similarities, and on balance, neither seems preferable to the other. In practice, however, most countries...

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Economic and Environmental Benefits of Eliminating Log Export Bans; The Case of Costa Rica

Kishor, Nalin M.; Mani, Muthukumara; Constantino, Luis F. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2001

An increasing number of tropical timber producing nations have enacted bans on export of logs. Proponents argue that a log export ban is a second-best policy tool for addressing environmental externalities; it also creates more jobs and improves scale efficiencies domestically. Theoretical...

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Public Expenditure Policy and the Environment; A Review and Synthesis

Miranda, Kenneth M.; Parry, Ian W.H.; Gupta, Sanjeev - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 1993

market failures to ensure that environmental degradation and resource use is contained to appropriate levels. However, in … identifies areas of public expenditure policy that interact with the environment. It argues that a reform of certain types of … tend to benefit the environment, thereby moving an economy towards ‘sustainable’ development. …

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Alternative Forms of Mineral Taxation, Market Failure and the Environment

Muzondo, Timothy R. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 1992

This paper examines the environmental effects of mineral taxes in a framework that recognizes the importance of rates and cumulative externalities and proposes an appropriate corrective tax. It concludes that mineral resources taxation should combine neutral taxes with a dynamic Pigovian type...

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Performance of Publicly Listed Chilean Firms During the 2008-2009 Global Financial Crisis

Wu, Yi - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2012

This paper examines publicly listed Chilean firmsâ€™ performance during the 2008â€“09 crisis. In particular, it studies the effects from changes in external financing conditions, aggregate demand, and international trade on firmsâ€™ investment, sales, and profits, using...

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