Fuel Taxes and the Poor - The Distributional Effects of Gasoline Taxation Their Implications

Informationen zum Autor Thomas Sterner is a Professor of Environmental Economics at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden and a University Fellow of Resources for the Future, Washington DC. He has published a dozen books and more than 60 journal articles. Klappentext First Published in 2011. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. Zusammenfassung Challenges the conventional wisdom that gasoline taxation, an important instrument of climate policy, has a disproportionately detrimental effect on poor people. This book states that while there may be some slight regressivity in some high-income countries, as a general rule, fuel taxation is a progressive policy in low income countries. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction 2. The Consumer Burden of a Carbon Tax on Gasoline 3. Distributional and Efficiency Impacts of Increased U.S. Gasoline Taxes 4. Estimates from a Consumer Demand System: Implications for the Incidence of Environmental Taxes 5. Fuel Tax Incidence in Costa Rica: Gasoline versus Diesel 6. The Income Distribution effects of Fuel Taxation in Mexico 7. Is Fuel Taxation Progressive or Regressive in China? 8. Are Fuel Taxes in India Regressive? 9. Is Reducing Subsidies on Vehicle Fuel Equitable? A Lesson from Indonesian Reform Experience 10. Distributional Consequences of Transport Fuel Taxes in Ethiopia 11. Political Petrol Pricing: the Distributional Impact of Ghana's Fuel Subsidies 12. Distributional Effects of Transport Fuel Taxes in Kenya: Case of Nairobi 13. Assessing the Impact of Oil Price Changes on Income Distribution in Mali: An Input-Output Approach 14. An Analysis of the Efficacy of Fuel Taxation for Pollution Control in South Africa 15. Fuel Taxation and Income Distribution in Tanzania 16. Distributional Effects in Europe 17. Who pays taxes on fuels and public transport services in the Czech Republic? Ex post and ex ante measurement 18. Distributional Effect of Reducing Transport Fuel Subsidies in Iran 19. Conclusions ...

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• Authors: Professor Thomas Sterner, Thomas Sterner, Thomas (Professor) Sterner, Thomas (University of Gothenburg Sterner
• Assisted by: Professor Thomas Sterner (Editor), Thomas Sterner (Editor), Thomas (University of Gothenburg Sterner (Editor), Thomas Sterner (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.12.2011
• EAN: 9781617260926
• ISBN: 978-1-61726-092-6
• No. of pages: 378
• Series: Environment for Development; Environment for Development
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, Verkehrsplanung und -politik, Energiewirtschaft und Versorgungsunternehmen