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Showing items 40006 through 40014 of 73422.This paper reviews the literature on tax
assignment in decentralized countries. Ideally, own-source
revenues should be sufficient to enable at least the richest
subnational governments to finance from their own resources
Energy poverty is a frequently used term
among energy specialists, but unfortunately the concept is
rather loosely defined. Several existing approaches measure
energy poverty by defining an energy poverty line as the
This paper examines the policy options
for India as it seeks to improve living conditions of the
poor on a large scale and reduce the population in slums.
Addressing the problem requires first a diagnosis of the
As natural disasters hit with increasing
frequency, especially in coastal areas, it is imperative to
better understand how much natural disasters affect
economies and their people. This requires disaggregated
Why do many households remain exposed to
large exogenous sources of non-systematic income risk? This
paper uses a series of randomized field experiments in rural
India to test the importance of price and non-price factors
Private inspection of international
shipments has been used over the last half-century for a
variety of purposes. These include prevention of capital
flight and improvement of import duty collection, among
Deliberative decision-making processes
are becoming increasingly important around the world to make
important decisions about public and private goods
allocation, but there is very little empirical evidence
The little green data book 2010 show
wide disparities across regions. For example, urban air
pollution declined in most countries between 2000 and 2006
(the most recent year for which data is available), with the
This paper summarizes the policy-relevant insights of a generation of research on scale economies.
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