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The Marginal Cost of Public Funds in Africa
Warlters, Michael; Auriol, Emmanuelle - 2005
The authors use a computable general equilibrium model to estimate the marginal cost of public funds (MCF) for taxes on … for tax reform in Africa. The authors investigate the MCFs of hypothetical taxes in the informal sector and the impact of …
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The Heterogeneous Growth Effects of the Business Environment : Firm-Level Evidence for a Global Sample of Cities
Reyes, Jose Daniel - 2017
Using firm-level data covering 709 cities in 128 countries, this paper examines the role of a comprehensive list of business environment variables at the subnational level in explaining firm employment and productivity growth. The analysis finds basic protection, access to finance and...
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Taxation, Information, and Withholding : Evidence from Costa Rica
Brockmeyer, Anne - 2017
This paper studies tax withholding on business sales, a widely used compliance mechanism which is ignored by public finance theory. A withholding scheme, whereby the payer in a transaction collects tax from the payee, is introduced in a standard evasion model with third-party reporting. If the...
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Social Spending, Taxes and Income Redistribution in Uruguay
Bucheli, Marisa - 2017
How much redistribution does Uruguay accomplish through social spending and taxes? How progressive are revenue … inequality and poverty when all taxes and transfers are combined. In comparison with five other countries in Latin America, it … third in terms of overall (including transfers in-kind) inequality reduction effectiveness. Direct taxes are progressive and …
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Populist Fiscal Policy
Khemani, Stuti - 2016
- and obtains the opposite prediction. According to this model, public spending and taxes are lower under coalition …
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Transformational Climate Finance : Donors'Willingness to Support Deep and Transformational Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reductions in Lower-Income Countries
Strand, Jon - 2020
This paper uses simple analytical models to study high-income donor countries' willingness to pay to supply mitigation finance to low-income countries; how this depends on modality for finance supply; and how it changes as the global greenhouse gas mitigation agenda moves forward. The paper...
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Macro-Financial Aspects of Climate Change
Feyen, Erik H.B. - 2020
This paper examines the interaction between macro-financial and climate-related risks. It brings together different strands of the literature on climate-related risks and how these relate to macro-financial management and risks. Physical impacts of climate change as well as the transition toward...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012844088
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Green Sukuk, Energy Poverty, and Climate Change : A Roadmap for Sub-Saharan Africa
AASSOULI, Dalal - 2018
The climate change challenge and the growth of the Islamic finance industry, together with the increase in socially responsible investing, could position green sukuk as a key instrument for financing clean energy and resilient infrastructure projects as well as shorter-term energy efficiency...
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Environment and Development : Penalized Non-Parametric Inference of Global Trends in Deforestation, Pollution and Carbon
Andree, Bo Pieter Johannes - 2019
This paper revisits the issue of environment and development raised in the 1992 World Development Report, with new analysis tools and data. The paper discusses inference and interpretation in a machine learning framework. The results suggest that production gradually favors conserving the...
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Understanding the Economic Impacts of Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Policies on Shipping : What is the State of the Art of Current Modeling Approaches?
Halim, Ronald Apriliyanto - 2019
The International Maritime Organization's initial strategy on reduction of greenhouse gas emissions from ships stipulates that the international shipping sector should assess the impacts on states prior to adoption of the mitigation measures included in the strategy. This assessment should be...
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