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In 2013, around 121 billion US-Dollar were spend worldwide to promote the investment into renewable energy sources. The most prominent support scheme employed is a feed-in tariff, which guarantees a fixed price for electricity produced by renewable energies sources, usually for around 15 years...
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Agricultural subsidies are an important strategy of the European Union, for improving farm incomes, economic consolidation of the agricultural sector, raising living standards and thus ensuring food security. This paper tries to answer at two questions. First, if there were significant changes...
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The costs and benefits of subsidized microfinance are still a controversial topic. We evaluate how subsidies affect the cost-efficiency of microfinance institutions (MFIs). At the same time, we account for endogenous self-selection into the business models of credit-only versus...
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subsidies are on the chopping mat, exceptions are few. One such an exception is subsidy to Ramp;D. This article gives a (Indian … benefits of providing Ramp;D subsidy to private commercial undertakings …
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We investigate whether government subsidies to local input manufacturers encourage procurement from foreign firms. We use a comprehensive panel data of Irish firms from 1983 until 2002. Our data shows a spontaneity about linkages and relative insensitivity to grant aid, although it may be the...
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I study the effect of an innovation subsidy on the growth of firms in a developing country. Using administrative … innovation subsidy, firms issue more patents, expand their workforce, and diversify their product line. However, these patents …
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This paper employs a new empirical approach to estimate the impact of subsidies on growth and productivity. Our key innovation is to use local political leader geographic rotation as a source of exogenous variation. By using Chinese Industrial Census data from 1999 to 2013, we find that more...
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Making energy affordable to the poor is a widely cited reason for subsidies. Whether subsidies achieve this objective is rarely analysed. In this article, the significance of kerosene and electricity subsidies in relation to the purchasing power of Ethiopian urban households is examined. The...
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a computable general equilibrium model coupledwith a microsimulation model to assess the impacts of the subsidy policy … onagricultural production and poverty, under three funding modalities. We find thatthe subsidy policy is beneficial to agricultural … growth and poverty reduction. Wefind that financing the subsidy through corporate income taxes further reducespoverty among …
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This paper evaluates how the Progresa Program, which provides poor mothers in rural Mexico with education grants, has affected enrollment. Poor children who reside in communities randomly selected to participate in the initial phase of the Progresa are compared to those who reside in other...
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