Disposal is Not Free: Fiscal Instruments to Internalize the Environmental Costs of Solid Waste
Disposal is Not Free: Fiscal Instruments to Internalize the Environmental Costs of Solid Waste

Author: Ms.Thornton Matheson

Publisher: International Monetary Fund

Published: 2019-12-20

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 1513521586

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This paper provides an overview of global solid waste generation, its environmental costs, and fiscal instruments that can be used to encourage waste reduction and finance proper disposal. Countries—especially island nations--struggle to manage an ever-increasing volume of solid waste, generation of which is projected to exceed 2 billion tons a year by 2025. Although solid waste management is usually relegated to subnational governments, externalities from inadequate management, which include greenhouse gas emissions and ocean plastic pollution, reach global scale. National governments thus play a critical role in creating incentives for waste minimization and ensuring adequate resources for proper waste management. This paper evaluates potential fiscal instruments to achieve these goals, particularly in developing country policy environments.

Theory and Practice of Excise Taxation
Theory and Practice of Excise Taxation

Author: Sijbren Cnossen

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2005-02-03

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 0191608556

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Excise taxes on smoking, drinking, gambling, polluting, and driving are always topical and controversial. Not only are these taxes convenient sources of government revenue, they can also be designed to reflect the external costs that consumers or producers of excisable products impose on other people. Global warming, acid rain, traffic congestion, and the economic costs of cigarette and alcohol consumption are problems that can be corrected through selective excise taxes and other regulatory instruments. Excise taxes, moreover, are increasingly looked upon as revenue substitutes for distortionary taxes on capital and labour. Addressing these and other issues, this book by internationally recognized experts analyses the art of excise taxation, providing a systematic, insightful, and often provocative treatment of a major fiscal instrument that policy-makers often neglect, and that gets little attention in the professional literature. It provides a sound understanding, not only of relevant economic theory, but of the myriad institutional details that are crucial for the practical application of that theory.

Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports
Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports

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Publisher:

Published: 1980

Total Pages: 730

ISBN-13:

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Lists citations with abstracts for aerospace related reports obtained from world wide sources and announces documents that have recently been entered into the NASA Scientific and Technical Information Database.