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Introducing carbon taxes in South AfricaSouth Africa is considering introducing a carbon tax to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Following a discussion of the motivations for considering a carbon tax, we evaluate potential impacts using a dynamic economywide model linked to an energy...
Working Paper
Carbon pricing under binding political constraintsThe economic prescription for climate change is clear: price carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) and other greenhouse gas emissions to internalize climate damages. In practice, a variety of political economy constraints prevent the introduction of a carbon price...
Working Paper
Environmental Taxation and Revenue for DevelopmentThis paper considers the role of global environmental taxes both as instruments for improving the global environment and as a source of revenue for funding economic development. It reviews the general case for environmental taxes and the particular...
Working Paper
An Integrated Approach to Modelling Energy Policy in South AfricaWe link a bottom-up energy sector model to a recursive dynamic computable general equilibrium model of South Africa in order to examine two of the country’s main energy policy considerations: (i) the introduction of a carbon tax and (ii)...
Book
New Sources of Development FinanceAs their Millennium Development Goals, world leaders have pledged by 2015 to halve the number of people living in extreme poverty and hunger, to achieve universal primary education, to reduce child mortality, to halt the spread of HIV/AIDS, and to...
Book Chapter
Environmental Taxation and Revenue for DevelopmentPart of Book New Sources of Development Finance
Journal Article
Special section of Applied EnergyPart of Journal Special Issue Prospects for Renewable Energy in Africa
Blog
An Innovative Source of Development Finance: The Carbon Tax
by Nitin Desai With official development assistance falling short of needs, there has long been a search for ‘innovative’ means for financing...
Blog
Regional Industrialization and Integration in Southern Africa - Reporting from TIPS Annual Forum
The white-painted cluster of traditional style buildings might suggest that this was a farm on the South African veldt. Not so however—it was Trade...
Journal Article
A sequential approach to integrated energy modeling in South AfricaPart of Journal Special Issue Prospects for Renewable Energy in Africa
Blog
Climate Policy and Developing Country Interests
There are a series of questions to which we need answers if we are to implement climate change policies that help avoid negative effects. Three key...
Book Chapter
CO2 and the Greenhouse EffectPart of Book The Environment and Emerging Development Issues