Effective Scrappage Subsidies

Effective Subsidies in Developing Countries By

The international experience demonstrates that, the best water and sewerage services are those where the cost are fully paid for by the consumer, through the establishment of tariffs. This includes investment costs and operational costs. Whenever the tariffs are settled below the full service costs either the tax-payers end up paying the bill, thus subsidizing inefficient service providers or, ...

Recycling fuel subsidies as health subsidies.

Random innovation subsidies

This paper constructs a model where the identity of subsidized industries changes over time. An increase in the R&D subsidy raises innovation in industries that are currently subsidized, lowers innovation in the others, and raises aggregate innovation.

Subsidies in Housing

Subsidies in housing / Stephen K. Mayo. Includes bibliographical references. p. cm. (Sustainable Development Dept. Technical papers series ; SOC-112) " It complements the Operational Guidelines for Housing, and should be used together " —Presentation. Presentation In 1995 the Board of Executive Directors of the Inter-American Development Bank approved an amendment to the Operational Policy for ...

Production subsidies and redistribution

Who gains from stimulating output? We explore a dynamic model with production subsidies where the population is heterogeneous in one dimension: wealth. There are two channels through which production subsidies redistribute resources across the population. First, poorer agents gain from a rise in wages, since—to the extent there is an operative wealth effect in labor supply—they work harder. Sec...