Environment for Development

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1. Fuel Taxes and the Poor

   The Distributional Effects of Gasoline Taxation and Their Implications for Climate Policy

   Edited by Thomas Sterner

   Series: Environment for Development

   Fuel Taxes and the Poor challenges the conventional wisdom that gasoline taxation, an important and much-debated instrument of climate policy, has a disproportionately detrimental effect on poor people. Increased fuel taxes carry the potential to mitigate carbon emissions, reduce congestion, and...

   Published December 7th 2011 by RFF Press
2. Agricultural Investment and Productivity

   Building Sustainability in East Africa

   Edited by Gunnar Köhlin, Randall Bluffstone

   Series: Environment for Development

   Agricultural Investment and Productivity provides a deep and systematic look at the opportunities for and constraints to investments in sustainable agriculture in East Africa, offering important insights into what works and how to analyze agricultural investments in one of the poorest regions of...

   Published June 21st 2011 by RFF Press