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Urban Infrastructure Investment and Rent-Capture Potentials
Viguie, V. - 2017
In a context of rapid urbanization and energy transition, massive investments will be required to develop efficient public transport networks. Capturing the increase in land value caused by transport infrastructure (for example, through a betterment tax) appears a promising way to finance public...
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Paris Climate Agreement and the Global Economy : Winners and Losers
Mani, Muthukumara - 2018
.5 percent by 2030. Among non-European countries, Australia, New Zealand, and Mexico will also be affected, with an expected …
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Distributional Effects of Tobacco Taxation : A Comparative Analysis
Fuchs, Alan - 2019
Tobacco taxes have positive impacts on health outcomes. However, policy makers often hesitate to use them because of the perception that poorer households are affected disproportionally more than richer households. This study compares the simulated distributional effects of tobacco tax increases...
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Review of International Practices for Determining Medium-Term Resource Needs of Spending Agencies
Di Francesco, Michael - 2017
practices used in Australia, Austria, Canada, and the Netherlands to determine program costs as part of medium-term expenditure …
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Ecosystem Services and Green Growth
Vincent, Jeffrey R. - 2017
"Ecosystem services" has become a catch-phrase for the complex connections between the natural environment and human well-being. This paper considers the impact of changes in the supply of ecosystem services, and programs to increase their supply, on near-term growth of gross domestic product....
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Import Protection, Business Cycles, and Exchange Rates : Evidence from the Great Recession
Bown, Chad P. - 2017
five industrialized economies -- the United States, European Union, Australia, Canada and South Korea. There is evidence of …
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The Payout Phase of Pension Systems : A Comparison of Five Countries
Rocha, Roberto de Rezende - 2017
This paper provides a comparative summary of the payout phase of pension systems in five countries -- Australia, Chile …
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Governance Matters VIII : Aggregate and Individual Governance Indicators, 1996-2008
Kaufmann, Daniel; Kraay, Aart; Mastruzzi, Massimo - 2009
This paper reports on the 2009 update of the Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI) research project, covering 212 countries and territories and measuring six dimensions of governance between 1996 and 2008: Voice and Accountability, Political Stability and Absence of Violence/Terrorism,...
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Is the Developing World Catching Up? Global Convergence and National Rising Dispersion
Bussolo, Maurizio - 2017
rest of the world. Second, this convergence process will be accompanied by a widening of income distribution in two …
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The Developing World is Poorer than We Thought, But No Less Successful in the Fight Against Poverty
Chen, Shaohua - 2017
The paper presents a major overhaul to the World Bank's past estimates of global poverty, incorporating new and better … data. Extreme poverty-as judged by what quot;povertyquot; means in the world's poorest countries-is found to be more … the early 1980s. For 2005 we estimate that 1.4 billion people, or one quarter of the population of the developing world …
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