Fuel Taxes and the Poor

The Distributional Effects of Gasoline Taxation and Their Implications for Climate Policy
Herausgeber: Sterner, Thomas

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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First Published in 2011. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 378
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Dezember 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 712g
• ISBN-13: 9781617260926
• ISBN-10: 1617260924
• Artikelnr.: 33664646

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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