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Tax Policy and Present-Biased Preferences: Paternalism under International Capital Mobility
Aronsson, Thomas; Sjögren, Tomas - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2011
This paper deals with tax-policy responses to quasi-hyperbolic discounting. Earlier research on optimal paternalism typically abstracts from capital mobility. If capital is mobile between countries, it may no longer be possible for national governments to control domestic savings via capital...
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Optimal Policy with Heterogeneous Preferences
Kaplow, Louis - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
Optimal policy rules--including those regarding income taxation, commodity taxation, public goods, and externalities--are typically derived in models with homogeneous preferences. This article reconsiders many central results for the case in which preferences for commodities, public goods, and...
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Optimal Control of Externalities in the Presence of Income Taxation
Kaplow, Louis - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006
A substantial literature examines second-best environmental policy, focusing particularly on how the Pigouvian directive that marginal taxes should equal marginal external harms needs to be modified in light of the preexisting distortion due to labor income taxation. Additional literature is...
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Remittances, Growth and Poverty: New Evidence from Asian Countries
Imai, Katsushi S.; Gaiha, Raghav; Ali, Abdilahi; … - Research Institute for Economics and Business … - 2011
. Finally, remittances contribute to poverty reduction – especially through their direct effects. Migration and remittances are …
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Microfinance and Poverty -A Macro Perspective
Imai, Katsushi S.; Gaiha, Raghav; Thapa, Ganesh; Annim, … - Research Institute for Economics and Business … - 2010
Building on the recent literature on finance, growth and hunger, we have examined the experience of Asian countries over the last five decades, using dynamic panel models. Although the results are mixed, depending on the specification and variables used, there is some evidence favouring a...
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Remittances, growth and poverty: New evidence from Asian countries
Imai, Katsushi S.; Gaiha, Raghav; Ali, Abdilahi; … - In: Journal of Policy Modeling 36 (2014) 3, pp. 524-538
. Finally, remittances contribute to poverty reduction – especially through their direct effects. Migration and remittances are …
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Poverty, Undernutrition and Vulnerability in Rural India: Public Works versus Food Subsidy
Jha, Raghbendra; Imai, Katsushi S.; Gaiha, Raghav - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2008
food subsidy programme, on consumption poverty, vulnerability and undernutrition in India drawing upon the large household … effects of RPW or PDS on poverty. We have found significant and negative effects of the household participation in RPW and … Food for Work Programmes on poverty, undernutrition (e.g. protein) and vulnerability in 1993 and 2004. On the contrary …
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Agriculture, Markets and Poverty - A Comparative Analysis of Laos and Cambodia
Gaiha, Raghav; Azam, Md Shafiul; Annim, Samuel; Imai, … - Research Institute for Economics and Business … - 2012
in achieving this goal. As these are macro relationships, richer insights into determinants of poverty are obtained by …
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Remittances, Growth and Poverty: New Evidence from Asian Countries
Imai, Katsushi; Gaiha, Raghav; Ali, Abdilahi; Kaicker, Nidhi - Research Institute for Economics and Business … - 2013
. Finally, remittances contribute to poverty reduction – especially through their direct effects. Migration and remittances are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010661191
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Diet Diversification and Diet Quality in India: An Analysis
Gaiha, Raghav; Kaicker, Nidhi; Imai, Katsushi S.; … - Research Institute for Economics and Business … - 2012
Our study examines changes in diets over the period 1993-2009. Diets have shifted away from cereals towards higher consumption of fruits, vegetables, oils and livestock products. Using household data, a food diversity index (FDI) is constructed, based on five food commodities. Significant price...
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