The case for subsidies
Evaluating the case for export subsidies
... In the latter case, based on the Latin American experience, it is far from clear that export subsidies are the least-cost instrument of achieving export expansion or diversification?. [r] ...
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A Turquoise Mess: Green Subsidies, Blue Industrial Policy and Renewable Energy: The Case for Redrafting the Subsidies Agreement of the WTO
... any case, the ...environmental subsidies, it covers only one-time non-recurring payments for a small percentage of the costs of adaptation to new environmental ...
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A turquoise mess : green subsidies, blue industrial policy and renewable energy : the case for redrafting the subsidies agreement of the WTO
... the case though, do raise legitimate questions both with respect to the specifics of the case, as well as of more general nature regarding the WTO Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures ...
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"Rethinking Health Care Policy: The Case for Retargeting Tax Subsidies"
... tax subsidies reduces the incentive people otherwise would have to seek out efficient providers of care, and to monitor the care they are ...any case become weaker ...
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Agricultural input subsidies in sub-Saharan Africa – the case of Tanzania
... detailed case study in Tanzania, using secondary literature and data review, and primary mixed-methods research in Tanzania; and that it considers the impact of input subsidies through an analysis of design ...
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The age of innocence : the evolution of the case-law of the WTO dispute settlement: subsidies as a case-study
... the case-law of the WTO dispute settlement: Subsidies as a case-study reasons, constitutions more easily lend themselves to creative and evolutive interpretation or require the continuous balancing ...
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Agricultural Subsidies in India: Case Study of Electricity Subsidy in Punjab State: An Analysis
... agricultural subsidies, which have burdened Punjab’s exchequer ...the case for user charges-based open access to electricity to speed up the pace of economic development of an agro-based economy as this ...
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Targeting Transfers to the Poor: the Case of Food Subsidies
... Based on Other countries' expe- riences, it is reasonable to assume that a national poverty-focused food subsidy program employing categorical targeting schemes would have an administrat[r] ...
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Budgetary subsidies and the fiscal deficit case of Maharashtra
... In this paper we explore the reasons for the wide gaps in the measure of fiscal deficit and the estimate of aggregate subsidy and suggest an improvement in the methodology to estimate the latter. The plan of this paper ...
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Subsidies on low skilled's social security contributions: the case of Belgium.
... EUR/year (model IV) for the 2001 Workbonus and in the range of 21015 EUR/year (model II) to 40330 EUR/year (model IV) for the 2006 Workbonus. Clearly further expansions of the measure would imply higher budgetary cost ...
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A case of sectoral export promotion: Export insurance subsidies in Belgium.
... Since the premium rate only affects risky profits, expression (3) allows us to derive the effect on total industry profits of domestic firms exporting to market j as:.. Fically,[r] ...
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Designing direct subsidies for water and sanitation services - Panama : a case study
... While reliable information about poverty levels at the zonal level may be obtained based on census or survey data, it is much harder to obtain a reliable estimate of household income and[r] ...
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How solar subsidies can distort the power market: the case of Italy
... Rick Bosman Dear Mr Bosman, Thank you for your interesting comment w hich helps me to clarify my point of view . Of course I dealt w ith a very specific issue - the effect of decentralized, subsidized generation on the ...
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How solar subsidies can distort the power market: the case of Italy
... Rick Bosman Dear Mr Bosman, Thank you for your interesting comment w hich helps me to clarify my point of view . Of course I dealt w ith a very specific issue - the effect of decentralized, subsidized generation on the ...
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Principle of Selectivity in Housing Rehabilitation Subsidies: A Case Study in Hong Kong
... concentrate resources on those in greatest need, it should not be used as an excuse for reductions in public expenditure for the promotion of housing rehabilitation. Yet, the issue of selectivity in housing ...
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Econometric Analysis of the Effects of Subsidies on Farm Production in Case of Endogenous Input Quantities
... For simplification, f Q (x q ; x l ; β ) denotes a function that is quadratic in x q , linear in x l , and has parameters β . In the above equations, β Y F and β Y H are vectors of unknown parameters. The effective ...
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"Prescription for Health Care Policy, The Case for Retargeting Tax Subsidies to Health Care"
... It would be necesszu-y to provide a cogent explanation of how the current health care system is funded (for example, the existence and workings of cross subsidi[r] ...
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Econometric Analysis of the Effects of Subsidies on Farm Production in Case of Endogenous Input Quantities
... agricultural subsidies to increase the incomes of their ...these subsidies is that without some financial supports from the govern- ment, domestic farmers would not be able to compete with foreign ...
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Homeowner subsidies
... appreciation/depreciation rate of the Case-Shiller Home Price Index during the life of the loan in the state where the property is located. Moreover, the price received by the lender when the property is sold may ...
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Hidden Subsidies
... There exists a strong case for enhancing user charges for services that are not in the nature of ‘merit goods’. Initially if efforts are made to recover recurrent costs only on such services (irrigation, roads, ...
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