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NEP: New Economics Papers
Agricultural Economics
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Edited by: Angelo Zago
http://ideas.repec.org/e/pza49.html
Universita degli Studi di Verona
Date: 2005-10-08
Papers: 3
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In this issue we have:
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1. Reaching Millennium Goals: How well does agricultural
productivity growth reduce poverty?
Nomaan Majid
2. Environment for the People
Elizabeth A. Stanton; James K. Boyce
3. Land taxes in a Latin American context
Juliano Junqueira Assun??o; Humberto Moreira
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1. Reaching Millennium Goals: How well does agricultural
productivity growth reduce poverty?
Nomaan Majid (International Labour Office, Employment
Strategy Department)
Keywords: agricultural productivity, poverty
Date: 2004-08-05
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ilo:empstr:2004-12&r=agr
2. Environment for the People
Elizabeth A. Stanton
James K. Boyce
Environment for the People, a joint publication of PERI and the
Centre for Science and the Environment (CSE) in India, documents
innovative strategies used by environmental activists around the
world to build natural assets. In diverse landscapes, from
Bangladesh's riverine delta to Somalia's arid uplands,
communities are investing in ecological restoration. In
?extractive reserves' in the Amazon rainforest, the defense of
sustainable livelihoods goes hand-in-hand with defense of bio-
diversity. In the Peruvian Andes, indigenous com-munities are
fighting to protect their lands and water from the ravages of the
mining industry. And in cities around the world, from Los Angeles
to New Delhi, communities are mobilizing to defend the right to
clean air. These and other inspiring cases profiled in
Environment for the People illustrate that humankind does not
face an inexorable ?tradeoff' between protecting the natural
environment and improving economic well-being. On the contrary,
struggles for environmental protection and sustainable
livelihoods are bound together.
Date: 2005
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:uma:perips:ps15&r=agr
3. Land taxes in a Latin American context
Juliano Junqueira Assun??o (Department of Economics PUC-
Rio)
Humberto Moreira (EPGE/FGV)
Since Henry George (1839-1897) economists have been arguing that
a tax on unim- proved land is an ideal tax on e? ciency grounds.
Output taxes, on the other hand, have distortional e?ects on the
economy. This paper shows that under asymmetric information
output tax might be used along with land tax in order to
implement the optimal taxation scheme in a Latin-American context,
i.e., in an economy with imperfect land-rental market, non-
agricultural land use and non-revenue objectives of land taxation.
Also, we show that: (i) schemes based on land taxes alone might
not be implementable; and (ii) tax evasion is more acute among
large landholders.
Keywords: Optimal taxation, tax evasion, land use.
Date: 2005-02
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:rio:texdis:497&r=agr
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