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Agriculture, structural transformation and poverty reduction: Eight new insights by Christiaensen, Luc, Martin, Will

“…They also add important nuances to this broad empirical regularity, uncover a series of structural conditions that affect this relation, and show that different mechanisms to finance public investment to boost sectoral growth (deficit financing, taxation or aid) can have widely different impacts on poverty, a widely-ignored issue so far. …”
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Reforming agricultural markets in Africa by Kherallah, Mylene, Delgado, Christopher L., Gabre-Madhin, Eleni Zaude, Minot, Nicholas, Johnson, Michael E.

“…In the agricultural sector these programs were designed to eliminate price controls on agricultural commodities, disband or privatize state farms and state-owned enterprises, reduce the heavy taxation of agricultural exports, phase out subsidies on fertilizer and other inputs, and allow greater competition in agricultural markets. …”
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Vilka behov av mertjänster har Areals fastighetsköpare? by Hjerpe, Emil

“…It has also been shown that the need for help in the area of taxation, accounting and financial statements are great in general and specifically for those who doesn´t live near their property. …”
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Early childhood nutrition and health by Azzarri, Carlo

“…Relevant papers in this regard address decentralization, civil service reform, and taxation. In assessing what we know about “what works?” …”
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Don’t go nuts over nuts : an analysis of policy to reduce water scarcity caused by nuts by Vinberg, Hanna

“…To conclude, a dietary transition away from nuts is possible by the use of consumption sided taxation.…”

Border carbon adjustments: Should production or consumption be taxed? by Martin, Will

“…This approach would shift the base for carbon taxation from production to demand and potentially achieve substantial reductions in the cost of cutting emissions. …”
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Explaining catch-up in human development: A political economy comparison of the Philippines and Viet Nam since 1986 by Baulch, Bob

“…Viet Nam’s authoritarian but socially inclusive governments then used progressive taxation and inter-provincial transfers to translate this growth into human development outcomes. …”
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The mechanisms behind consumer behavior changes of sugar-sweetened beverage tax and policy implications by Liu, Lu, Chen, Kevin Z.

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Analyzing the impact of changes in tobacco trade barriers and cigarette taxes on developing countries : a global simulation model approach by Musona, Jackson

“…This thesis therefore explored the impact of tobacco trade taxation, on developing countries as one of the key evidence-based tobacco control and demand reduction measures. …”

Winners and losers of IWRM [Integrated Water Resources Management] in Tanzania by van Koppen, Barbara, Tarimo, A.K.P.R., Eeden, A. van, Manzungu, Emmanuel, Sumuni, P.M.

“…After the 1990s, the World Bank and other donors promoted IWRM with a strong focus on hydroelectric power development, River Basin Water Boards, transformation of the water right system into a taxation tool, and assessment of environmental flows. …”
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Skogsbruk i fjällnära skog : privata markägarnas förutsättningar att bedriva skogsbruk i fjällnära områden by Forssén, Linnea, Linde, Elin

Taxing meat by Mosca, Joseph

“…Counter to this, there was a counter narrative that is pro-taxation of meat, sceptic to Swedish political will to stand up to industry and economic interests, and critical of Swedish meat and meat consumption. …”
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Fördelning av en kostnad utifrån olika rättviseteorier by Lundin, Petter

“…An existing willingness to pay for those investments has therefore become an alternative to increases in taxation to be able to cover the costs. A proposal to let the willingness to pay, alternatively increases in taxation that act proportional, decide how a cost is distributed can be said to be related, but not fully correspond, with different theories of justice described by Robert Nozick and John Rawls. …”
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The economywide impacts of increasing water security through policies on agricultural production: The case of rice and sugarcane in Pakistan by Davies, Stephen, Akram, Iqra, Ali, Muhammad Tahir, Hafeez, Mohsin, Ringler, Claudia

“…The needed policies will go beyond just taxation and might include changing cropping patterns and irrigation practices, as well as development of drought resistant varieties. …”
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Att återställa en naturlig ordning by Kling, Jonas

“…A forest taxation in 1926 shows that most of the forest had very low volume, but that there also was older trees within most of the area. …”
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Timber Trade in the Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC): Effectiveness of Timber Parks in Tackling Tax Frauds by Ferrari, S., Cerutti, P.O.

“…The park staff were able to detect the clear mismatch between what was declared as Mammea africana and belonged instead to the genus Afzelia, commercial name doussié, possibly A. bipindensis, one of the most valuable species (in terms of taxation) and also part of the country's most threatened species, recently listed in Annex II of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES). …”
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High food prices: The what, who, and how of proposed policy actions by von Braun, Joachim, Ahmed, Akhter, Asenso-Okyere, Kwadwo, Fan, Shenggen, Gulati, Ashok, Hoddinott, John F., Pandya-Lorch, Rajul, Rosegrant, Mark W., Ruel, Marie T., Torero, Maximo, van Rheenen, Teunis, von Grebmer, Klaus

“…Policymakers should consider mobilizing resources from four sources: the winners from the commodity boom among countries; the community of traditional and new donor countries; direct or indirect progressive taxation and reallocation of public expenditures in the affected countries themselves; and mobilization of private sector finance, including through improved outreach of banking to agriculture. …”
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The nexus between climate change, mobility, and conflict in Somalia by Abdullahi, Said, Singh, Radhika, Takaindisa, Joyce, Giacomelli, Camilla, Sax, Niklas, Carneiro, Bia, Pacillo, Grazia

“…Finally, the study revealed how Al- Shabaab exploited and exacerbated climate- induced vulnerabilities, using blockades, taxation, and violence to control rural populations in regions already suffering from climate shocks. …”
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Bosättning, agrarkris och fäbodväsende by Emanuelsson, Marie

“…Lade is mentioned as a small hamlet in the taxation books from the 16th and 17th centuries. It is absent in the register of summer farms from 1663, but from the 1670s and onwards it is recorded as consisting of summer farms. …”
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Skatternas inverkan på skogens värde : en fallstudie av räntefördelning och rationaliseringsförvärv by Furusköld, Marcus, Grunér, Pontus