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Welfare and fiscal implications from increased gasoline prices in the Islamic Republic of Iran

Atamanov, Aziz; Dehzooei, Mohammadhadi Mostafavi; … - 2020

. 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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Assessing urban policies using a simulation model with formal and informal housing : application to Cape Town, South Africa

Coville, Aidan; Di Maro, Vincenzo; Dunsch, Felipe Alexander - 2019

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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Women at work : how can investment incentives be used to enhance economic opportunities for women?

Kronfol, Hania; Nichols, Alison; Trang Thu Tran - 2019

) subsidies and grants, (ii) tax incentives, and (iii) public procurement incentives. Because incentives run the risk of creating …

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Can micro-credit support public health subsidy programs?

Augsburg, Britta; Caeyers, Bet; Malde, Bansi - 2019

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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Estimating the magnitude of water supply and sanitation subsidies

Andrés, Luis; Espiñeira, Gonzalo; Joseph, George; … - 2020

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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Implementing adaptive approaches in real world scenarios : a Nigeria case study, with lessons for theory and practice

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How does adaptive implementation work in practice? Drawing on extensive interviews and observations, this paper contrasts the ways in which an adaptive component of a major health care project was implemented in three program and three matched comparison states in Nigeria. The paper examines the...

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Hierarchy and information

Rogger, Daniel; Somani, Ravi - 2018

What determines the distribution of information acquired within the hierarchy of a public organization? Without market processes, the generation and absorption of information in bureaucracy relies on individual actors undertaking costly action to acquire it. This paper reports on comparisons...

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Prioritizing infrastructure investment : a framework for government decision making

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