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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012059003
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012059225
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012390560
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Implementing adaptive approaches in real world scenarios : a Nigeria case study, with lessons for theory and practice
Bridges, Kate; Woolcock, Michael - 2019
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012002337
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Do politically connected firms innovate, contributing to long-term economic growth?
Francis, David; Hussain, Sahar; Schiffbauer, Marc - 2018
due to the generous policy privileges they receive, including exclusive access to input subsidies, public procurement …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011902856
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Prioritizing Infrastructure Investment : A Framework for Government Decision Making
Marcelo, Darwin - 2016
Governments must decide how to allocate limited resources for infrastructure development, particularly since financing gaps have been projected for the coming decades. Social cost-benefit analysis provides sound project appraisal and, when systematically applied, a basis for prioritization. In...
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Ex-ante evaluation of the impact of increases in minimum wages on labor market outcomes in Kosovo
Robayo-Abril, Monica; Terskaya, Anastasia; Brodmann, … - 2020
This paper uses microsimulation techniques to quantify the potential ex-ante impacts of several minimum wage increases on labor market outcomes in Kosovo. The results show that the overall impacts of a minimum wage increase in the baseline scenario are likely to be modest, although the impacts...
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