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The Russian Federation offers the unique example of a leading centrally planned economy swiftly transforming itself into a market-oriented economy. This paper offers a comprehensive study of inequality and mobility patterns for Russia, using multiple rounds of the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring...
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. Despite very regressive gasoline subsidies benefitting the rich the most, the increase in gasoline prices is found to affect … program will be around 338 trillion rials, which accounts for 77 percent of the estimated total savings from the subsidies …
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Building on a two-dimensional discrete version of the standard urban economics land-use model, this paper presents a tractable urban land-use simulation model that is adapted to developing country cities, where formal and informal housing submarkets coexist. The dynamic closed-city framework...
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) subsidies and grants, (ii) tax incentives, and (iii) public procurement incentives. Because incentives run the risk of creating …
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The low take-up of cost-effective and highly subsidised preventive health technologies in low-income countries remains a puzzle. One under-studied reason is that the design of subsidy schemes is such that households remain financially constrained. This paper analyses whether, and how,...
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and sanitation subsidies globally has proved challenging due to utility-level data limitations and their often implicit … nature. This paper develops a methodology to estimate water supply and sanitation subsidies that is adaptable to data scarce …. The results suggest that the cost of subsidies associated with the operations, maintenance, and major repair and …
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