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) emissions from agriculture. It uses a counterfactual global model scenario showing how much emissions from agricultural … some countries that currently tax agriculture have high emission intensities. Policies that directly reduce emission …
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The purpose of this paper is to introduce applications of RUSMOD - a microsimulation model for fiscal incidence analysis in the Russian Federation. RUSMOD combines household survey micro-data and fiscal policy rules to simulate the Russian tax-benefit system: the size and distribution of taxes...
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There is global interest in promoting mitigation and adaptation in agriculture, forest, and other land-use (AFOLU … carbon stocks in general in all land-based projects and its specific relationship with agriculture productivity. It outlines … reduction in agriculture and natural resource management (NRM) projects covering all land-use sectors presents two approaches …
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This study analyzes the incidence of public revenues (tax collection) and expenditures (including direct and indirect transfers, indirect subsidies, and in-kind transfers) on the level of poverty and inequality in Uganda, using the internationally recognized methodology developed by the...
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Fiscal policy is central to not only macroeconomic stability and growth, but also to poverty and inequality reduction. This paper provides the most comprehensive assessment of the distributional incidence of Turkey's fiscal policy to date. It analyzes the combined and individual incidence of...
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countries. This good practice note provides those working on consumer price subsidy reforms, in particular social scientists … qualitative research tools-focus group discussions and in-depth interviews-can be utilized in the context of energy subsidy …
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distributional analysis of food and energy subsidies and simulate the impact of subsidy reforms on household wellbeing, poverty, and … the government's budget. Despite the focus on direct effects only, the results indicate that subsidy reforms would have a … institutions, and the current political instability make subsidy reforms extremely complex in Libya. It is also clear that subsidy …
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particular generate in two important sectors-transport and agriculture-in two countries in the Middle East and North Africa, the … Arab Republic of Egypt (transport) and the Republic of Yemen (agriculture). The focus is mainly on the costs associated … with congestion and pollution, as well as the impact of underpriced energy for depletion of scarce water resources …
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Under increasing budget pressure, Morocco carried out an extensive set of subsidy reforms in 2014 and is planning for … simulation model designed by the World Bank. It finds that the 2014 reforms have been a good mix of reforms from a distributional …
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Carbon pricing policies that are aligned with the Paris Agreement objectives will have positive and negative socio-economic impacts on society. Impacts of unabated climate change are expected to disrupt economic development and disproportionally affect the poorest parts of the population,...
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