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Poverty-Decreasing Indirect Tax Reforms: Evidence from Tunisia [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper suggests a methodology to identify socially-desirable directions for poverty-alleviating tax reforms. The cost-benefit ratio of increasing any commodity-tax rate is derived from the minimization of a poverty measure subject to a revenue ...
Jean-Yves Duclos, Sami Bibi
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How Circular Economy Innovation Can Backfire on the Environment: Quantifying the Rebound Effect of the Textiles and Clothing Sector

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Circular economy (CE) is championed as a sustainability solution, promoting reuse, recycling and resource efficiency to reduce environmental harm. However, CE innovations can trigger a rebound effect (RE), where lower costs stimulate higher consumption and production, paradoxically negating sustainability gains.
Erez Yerushalmi, Krishnendu Saha
wiley   +1 more source

Indirect Taxes for Redistribution: Should Necessity Goods be Favored? [PDF]

open access: yes
Atkinson and Stiglitz show that with weakly separability, differential commodity taxes are unnecessary given an optimal nonlinear income tax. Deaton showed that with an optimal linear progressive income tax, commodity taxes are superfluous under weakly ...
Pierre Pestieau, Robin Boadway
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The Greening of Industry: Navigating the Nexus of Environmental Policies and Regulations, and Emission Abatement Strategies

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite the prevailing discourses on the importance of environmental policy and regulation on emission control, related theoretical and empirical developments are lacking. Using institutional theory, we propose that environmental policy and regulation contribute to emission control by integrating environmental impact exposure into decision ...
Emmanuel Senior Tenakwah   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Bureaucracy and Corruption Taxation Proof [PDF]

open access: yes
Using the Principal-Agent-Supervisor paradigm, we examine in this paper how a tax collection agency changes optimal schemes in order to lessen the occurrence of bribery between the tax collector and the taxpayer. The Principal, who maximizes the expected
Jellal, Mohamed
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Examining Airlines' Environmental and Social Disclosure: Does Board Gender Diversity Matter?

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the influence of board gender diversity (BGD) on environmental and social disclosure (ESD) within the airline industry, an area that remains underexplored despite increasing stakeholder scrutiny. We apply automated textual analysis to annual reports of Skytrax's top global airlines from 2016 to 2022 to measure the ...
Enoch Opare Mintah   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Shifting the tax burden: from direct to indirect tax [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
A consumption tax amounts to exempt savings from taxation. As such, it would have important distributional effects, first of all from the poor to the rich, but also towards capital intensive industries; and intergenerational, away from the very young (students) and the old.
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