This DAC Reference Paper outlines key issues faced when designing Environmental Fiscal Reform (EFR). EFR refers to a range of taxation and pricing measures which can raise fiscal revenues while furthering environmental goals. The objective is to provide insights and “good practice” on how...

This report seeks to contribute to rethinking poverty eradication, asserting "the urgent need for a strategic shift away from the market fundamentalist thinking, policies and practices of recent decades towards more sustainable development- and equity-oriented policies appropriate to national...

Contents; Foreword; List of Contributors; 1 Lessons from the Implementation of Poverty and Social Impact Analysis of Reforms; 2 Nicaragua: The Impact of the Fiscal Equity Law Reform; FIGURES; TABLES; 3 Burkina Faso: A Macroeconomic Approach to Analyze Cotton Sector Reform; 4 Mozambique: School...

With representatives from different disciplines stressing the central importance of freedom in analyzing poverty and emphasizing some important policy issues, this book offers a view of poverty that will orient research in directions previously neglected, and help those in charge of implementing...