Journal Article

South 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...

• Carbon tax
• Income distribution
• Public welfare

Working Paper

The 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...

• Carbon tax
• Environmental economics
• Climate change

Working Paper

This 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...

• Carbon tax
• Consumption
• Environment

Working Paper

We 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)...

• Carbon tax
• Economic policy
• Economic equilibrium

Working Paper

• Carbon tax
• Environmental economics
• Environmental policy

Book

As 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...

• Carbon tax
• Economic assistance and foreign aid
• International finance

Book Chapter

Part of Book New Sources of Development Finance

• Carbon tax
• Consumption
• Environment

Journal Article

Part of Journal Special Issue Prospects for Renewable Energy in Africa

• Carbon tax
• Climate change
• Regional economics

Blog

by Nitin Desai 2003

by Nitin Desai With official development assistance falling short of needs, there has long been a search for ‘innovative’ means for financing...

• Carbon tax
• Economic assistance and foreign aid
• International obligations

Blog

by Roger Williamson September 2015

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...

• Automotive industry
• Carbon tax
• Economic integration

Journal Article

Part of Journal Special Issue Prospects for Renewable Energy in Africa

• Carbon tax
• Economic policy
• Economic equilibrium

Blog

by Channing Arndt February 2015

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...

• Carbon tax
• Economic policy
• Economic equilibrium

Book Chapter

Part of Book The Environment and Emerging Development Issues

• Carbon tax
• Game theory
• Global warming