Documents et rapports
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Transportation fuel use, technology and standards: The role of credibility and expectations (anglais)
There is a debate among policy analysts about whether fuel taxes alone are the most effective policy to reduce fuel use by motorists, or whether to also use mandatory standards for fuel efficiency. A problem...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS4695 Date du document: 1 août 2008 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Eskeland,Gunnar Saethern,Mideksa, Torben K.
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Autonomy, participation, and learning in Argentine schools - findings and their implications for decentralization (anglais)
According to a theoretical model, school autonomy and parental participation in schools, can increase student learning through separate channels. Greater school autonomy increases the rent that can be...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS2766 Date du document: 31 janvier 2002 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Eskeland,Gunnar Saethern,Filmer,Deon P.
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Environmental protection and optimal taxation (anglais)
Struck by the fact that economists did not have a plausible model for why emissions standards, and mandated technologies, play a dominant role in pollution control, the author sought answers to two questions:...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS2510 Date du document: 31 décembre 2000 Auteur: Eskeland,Gunnar Saethern
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Public expenditures and environmental protection : when is the cost of funds irrelevant? (anglais)
Assume that a public program -- whether in the form of public expenditures or regulation of private activities -- provides not only a public good to consumers but also a collective input (say, a less polluted...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS2507 Date du document: 31 décembre 2000 Auteur: Eskeland,Gunnar Saethern
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Externalities and production efficiency (anglais)
The author brings together two of government's primary challenges: environmental protection, and taxation to generate revenues. If negative externalities can be reduced not only by changes in consumption...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS2319 Date du document: 30 avril 2000 Auteur: Eskeland,Gunnar Saethern
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Corruption under moral hazard (anglais)
In this theoretical analysis, the "principal" can be the head of the tax collection agency (or "government" or even citizens), the "supervisor" can be the tax collector, and the "agent" can be the taxpayer...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS2204 Date du document: 31 octobre 1999 Auteur: Eskeland,Gunnar Saethern,Thiele, Henrik
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Challenging El Salvador's rural health care strategy (anglais)
Can a supply-driven network of under-skilled rural health promoters make a difference in rural health care? There are few, if any, signs that the current rural health strategy in El Salvador is working...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS2164 Date du document: 31 août 1999 Auteur: Lewis,Maureen A.,Eskeland,Gunnar Saethern,Traa-Valerezo, Ximena
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Air pollution and health effects - a study of respiratory illness among children in Santiago, Chile (anglais)
The authors estimate dose-response functions for respiratory disease among children based on data from public clinics in Santiago. They find that respiratory disease among Santiago s children is significantly...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS1932 Date du document: 30 juin 1998 Auteur: Ostro, Bart D.,Eskeland,Gunnar Saethern,Feyzioglu, Tarhan,Sanchez, Jose Miguel
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The World Bank economic review 11(3) (anglais)
Rationing can backfire: the "day without a car" in Mexico City. Prices and protocols in public health care. Formal and informal regulation of industrial pollution: comparative evidence from Indonesia and...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 17657 Date du document: 30 septembre 1997 Auteur: Eskeland,Gunnar Saethern,Feyzioglu, Tarhan,Hammer, Jeffrey S.,Pargal,Sheoli,Hettige,Hemamala S.,Singh, Manjula,Wheeler, David,Taylor, Mark P.,Sarno, Lucio,Hoekman,Bernard M.,Djankow, Simeon,Haggarty,Luke Augustine,Shirley,Mary M.
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Rationing can backfire : day without a car in Mexico city (anglais)
A ban restricting each car from driving on a specified weekday is found to have increased total driving in Mexico City. Because of the ban, cars effectively represent 'driving permits' and some households...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 77256 Date du document: 1 septembre 1997 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Eskeland,Gunnar Saethern,Feyzioglu, Tarhan
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Taxing bads by taxing goods : pollution control with presumptive charges (anglais)
Solving environmental problems, in both developing and industrial countries, appears to be more challenging than merely applying a fee on polluters. The purpose of this book is to show that indirect instruments...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 15490 Date du document: 31 janvier 1996 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Eskeland,Gunnar Saethern,Devarajan,Shantayanan
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Rationing can backfire : the day without a car in Mexico City (anglais)
In November 1989, Mexico City's administration imposed a regulation banning each car from driving on a specific day of the week. The regulation has been both popular and controversial. Some feel that it...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS1554 Date du document: 31 décembre 1995 Auteur: Eskeland,Gunnar Saethern,Feyzioglu, Tarhan
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Air pollution and mortality : results from Santiago, Chile (anglais)
Heavy outdoor pollution is found in developing country cities such as Jakarta, Katowice, Mexico City, and Santiago. But most epidemiological studies of dose-response relationships between particulate air...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS1453 Date du document: 31 mai 1995 Auteur: Ostr, Bart,Sanchez, Jose Miguel,Aranda, Carlos,Eskeland,Gunnar Saethern
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Travel mode substitution in Sao Paulo : estimates and implications for air pollution control (anglais)
How would travel demand in Sao Paulo respond to demand management instruments? Could higher gasoline prices or lower metro fares (or changes in travel time) help reduce congestion or pollution? The authors...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS1437 Date du document: 31 mars 1995 Auteur: Swait, Joffre,Eskeland,Gunnar Saethern
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The World Bank economic review 8(3) (anglais)
Capital mobility in developing countries: some measurement issues and empirical estimates. The political economy of growth: a critical survey of the recent literature. A presumptive Pigovian tax: complementing...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 17650 Date du document: 30 septembre 1994 Auteur: Montiel,Peter J.,Alesina,Alberto,Perotti,Roberto,Eskeland,Gunnar Saethern,Fields,Gary S.,Tarr, David G.
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A presumptive pigovian tax : complementing regulation to mimic an emissions fee (anglais)
If regulations are used to make cars and fuels cleaner, should gasoline taxes be used to manage demand for trips that pollute? Anaysis of a well-composed program for Mexico City indicates that the emission...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 13668 Date du document: 30 septembre 1994 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Eskeland,Gunnar Saethern
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Is demand for polluting goods manageable? an econometric study of car ownership and use in Mexico (anglais)
Charging for social marginal costs is efficient regardless of price elasticities, but the importance of getting prices "right" is greater the more manageable, or elastic, the demand. In efficient pollution...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS1309 Date du document: 30 juin 1994 Auteur: Eskeland,Gunnar Saethern,Feyzioglu, Tarhan N.,DEC
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A presumptive pigovian tax on gasoline : analysis of an air pollution control program for Mexico City (anglais)
Without continuous monitoring of emissions, a pollution control agency needs to evaluate abatement options itself. Apart from making activities cleaner, it should also stimulate reductions in the level...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS1076 Date du document: 31 janvier 1993 Auteur: Eskeland,Gunnar Saethern
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Policy instruments for pollution control in developing countries (anglais)
What are appropriate strategies for protecting the environment in developing countries that also seek to promote growth and reduce poverty? This article reviews the literature on cost-effective intervention...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 14079 Date du document: 31 juillet 1992 Auteur: Eskeland,Gunnar Saethern,Jimenez,Emmanuel Y.
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The World Bank research observer 7 (2) (anglais)
Dumping and antidumping: the rhetoric and the reality of protection in industrial countries. Policy instruments for pollution control in developing countries. A survey of the costs of world sugar policies...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 17521 Date du document: 31 juillet 1992 Auteur: Finger,Joseph Michael,Eskeland,Gunnar Saethern,Jimenez,Emmanuel Y.,Borrell,Brent William,Duncan,Ronald C.,Mitra,Pradeep K.,McLure, Charles E., Jr.,Tait, Alan A.