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Fuel subsidies and income redistribution in Ecuador

Jara, H. Xavier; Lee, Po Chun; Montesdeoca, Lourdes; … - 2018

domestic gas subsidy tends to be progressive, whereas gasoline and diesel subsidies tend to be regressive. Our simulations show … that eliminating all fuel subsidies would increase poverty and inequality due to the importance of domestic gas subsidy for … loss following fuel subsidy elimination. …

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School Subsidies for the Poor : Evaluating the Mexican Progresa Poverty Program

Schultz, T. Paul - 2014

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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Volume and Composition of Public Expenditure on Subsidies : Subsidizing Social and Economic Services in Odisha

Tripathy, Umakanta; Laxmi Padhi, Pragnya - 2020

total government expenditure on subsidy and its proportion of GSDP, subsidy in social and economic services sector in odisha …. It measures the significance of growth performance of the state’s public expenditure on subsidy by using Semi log model … subsidy expenditure on different services in Odisha are in the differential growth rate of Odisha state finances over the …

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Improving taxes and transfers in Australia

Hemmings, Philip J.; Tuske, Annamaria - 2015

Getting tax and transfer systems to efficiently deliver sufficient revenues to achieve macroeconomic targets, address goals in re-distribution and social welfare, encourage employment, accommodate business-competitiveness concerns and incorporate environmental issues is difficult. In Australia,...

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Policy surveillance in the G-20 fossil fuel subsidies agreement : lessons for climate policy

Aldy, Joseph E. - 2015

. The G-20 leaders agreed to submit their subsidy reform strategies to peer review and to independent expert review …

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Tariffs versus production subsidies as industry protection

Ogawa, Yoshitomo; Ono, Yoshiyasu - 2013

This paper provides a welfare comparison of a tariff with a combination of a production subsidy to, and a commodity tax … combination of the production subsidy and the commodity tax and show it to be superior to the tariff from the welfare viewpoint …. -- Commodity Tax ; Production Subsidy ; Tariff ; Industry Protection …

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Learning abatement costs : on the dynamics of optimal regulation of experience goods

Hintermann, Beat; Lange, Andreas - 2012

We study the introduction of new technologies when their costs are subject to idiosyncratic uncertainty and can only be fully learned through individual experience. We set up a dynamic model of clean experience goods that replace old polluting consumption options and show how optimal regulation...

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A guide to the political economy of reforming energy subsidies

Commander, Simon - 2012

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How to improve taxes and transfers in Israel

Hemmings, Philip J. - 2014

Ensuring tax and transfer systems bring sufficient revenue to reach macroeconomic fiscal targets, address societal goals in re-distribution and social welfare, recognise the influence taxation has on businesses’ competitiveness and adequately address environmental externalities is a tough...

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The political economy of fuel subsidies in Colombia

Garcia Romero, Helena; Calderon Etter, Laura - 2013

Colombia has made progress towards eliminating fuel and diesel subsidies and reducing discretionary spaces allowing for artificially low fuel prices, but challenges remain. Colombia has provided explicit and implicit subsidies to gasoline and diesel since 1983, costing the government up to 1.6%...

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