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Housing values and jurisdictional fragmentation by Hatfield, John William, Kosec, Katrina, Rodgers, Luke P.

Subjects: “…taxes…”
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Kenya tax model: Value added tax simulation analysis by Shibia, Adan, Omune, Lensa, Mbuthia, Juneweenex, Diao, Xinshen, Oguso, Alex, Omwenga, Walter, Kiptoo, Elvis, Ali, Jecinta, Laichena, Joshua

“…This is compounded by the fact that VAT is a regressive tax, meaning that low-income households spend a higher proportion of their income on vatable products compared to high income earners. …”
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Creating fiscal space for enhancing public investment in Sindh agriculture sector: A qualitative study of provincial spending in Pakistan by Rana, Abdul Wajid

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Framing flexible spending accounts: A large‐scale field experiment on communicating the return on medical savings accounts by Leight, Jessica, Wilson, Nicholas

“…Tax‐preferred health savings devices such as Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs) and Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) offer employees potentially valuable financial instruments for directing pre‐tax earnings to eligible medical expenses. …”
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Realistic options for repurposing fertilizer subsidy spending by Hill, Ruth Vargas, Resnick, Danielle

“…Spending on these subsidies is coming under increasing scrutiny as governments struggle to mobilize additional revenue to meet important development targets amid rising debt distress, dwindling aid resources, and citizen protests against unpopular tax increases. …”
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Public spending on agricultural productivity and rural commercialisation: A comparison of impacts using an economy‐wide approach by Aragie, Emerta A., Balié, Jean

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Do external grants to district governments discourage own-revenue generation?: A look at local public finance dynamics in Ghana by Mogues, Tewodaj, Benin, Samuel, Cudjoe, Godsway

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Fiscal decentralization and political centralization in China: implications for regional inequality by Zhang, Xiaobo

“…Large differences in economic structures and revenue bases exist, however, causing the implicit tax rate and fiscal burdens in support of local government functions to vary significantly across jurisdictions. …”
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Macroeconomic impacts of climate change mitigation in Latin America: A cross-model comparison by Kober, Tom, Summerton P, Pollitt H, Chewpreecha, U., Ren X, Wills W, Octaviano C, McFarland J, Beach, Robert H., Caig Y, Calderón, S., Fisher-Vanden, Karen, Loboguerrero Rodriguez, Ana María

“…In this paper we analyse macroeconomic consequences of greenhouse gas emission mitigation in Latin America up to 2050 through a multi-model comparison approach undertaken in the context of the CLIMACAP–LAMP research project. We compare two carbon tax scenarios with a business-as-usual scenario of anticipated future energy demand. …”
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Agricultural R&D in Central America: Policy, investments and institutional profile by Stads, Gert-Jan, Hartwich, Frank, Rodríguez, David, Enciso, Francisco

“…Total agricultural R&D spending has remained fairly stagnant since the early 1980s. …”
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Diversity in agricultural research resources in the Asia-Pacific region by Beintema, Nienke M., Stads, Gert-Jan

“…A number of countries have sought to fund agricultural R&D by a tax on agricultural production or exports while other countries have been successful in commercializing their research results.…”
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A general equilibrium analysis of alternative scenarios for food subsidy reform in Egypt by Lofgren, Hans, El-Said, Moataz

“…Savings from reduced subsidy spending are used to reduce direct taxes uniformly for all household types. …”
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Modern input promotion in sub-Saharan Africa: Insights from Asian green revolution by Rashid, Shahidur, Dorosh, Paul A., Malek, Mehrab, Lemma, Solomon

“…Both continents have two challenges in common: degradation of soil health and increasingly larger shares of public spending on input subsidies. The first challenge calls for paying attentions to improving fertilizer use efficiency, which is an achievable target, with high pay off in the long run. …”
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Economy-wide implications of increasing school enrolment in Sub-Saharan Africa by Elnour, Zuhal, Siddig, Khalid, Grethe, Harald

“…Funding such cost reductions from foreign development aid and grants yields higher economic benefits than increasing domestic taxes. JEL Classification: C68; H52; I25; O55…”
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