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DOI	10.1016/j.enpol.2020.111961
	Mitigating poverty: The patterns of multiple carbon tax and recycling regimes for Peru
	Malerba D.; Gaentzsch A.; Ward H.
发表日期	2021
ISSN	03014215
卷号	149
英文摘要	Carbon taxes are an economically effective and efficient policy measure to address climate change mitigation. However, they can have severe adverse distributional effects. Recycling parts of the fiscal revenues to vulnerable, lower income households through cash transfers (social assistance) is an option to also overcome associated political difficulties. This paper simulates the distributional impacts of such a combined policy reform in Peru. In a first step, we assess the distributional impacts of varying carbon tax rates. In a second step, we evaluate different scenarios of recycling revenues through existing or expanded transfer schemes towards vulnerable households. The results indicate that a national carbon tax, without compensation, would increase poverty but have no significant impact on inequality. When tax revenues are recycled through transfer schemes, however, poverty would actually decrease. Depending on the amount to be redistributed and the design of the cash transfer scheme, our simulations show a proportional reduction in the poverty headcount of up to around 17%. In addition, the paper underlines how crucial it is to go beyond aggregate measures of poverty to better identify losers from such reform; and assure that the “leave no one behind” principle of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is addressed. © 2020 The Author(s)
关键词	Carbon tax Cash transfer Income distribution Input-output analysis Poverty
英文关键词	Carbon; Climate change; Emission control; Public policy; Recycling; Aggregate measures; Carbon taxes; Climate change mitigation; Policy measures; Policy reforms; Tax revenue; Transfer scheme; Taxation; environmental economics; income distribution; input-output analysis; low income population; policy reform; pollution tax; poverty; recycling; Sustainable Development Goal; Peru
语种	英语
来源期刊	Energy Policy
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/205242
作者单位	German Development Institute, Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), Bonn, Germany; Global Development Institute, The University of Manchester, United Kingdom; SOCIUM, University of Bremen, Germany; Institute of Environmental Sciences (CML), Department of Industrial Ecology, Leiden University, Netherlands; The Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC), Germany; Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Malerba D.,Gaentzsch A.,Ward H.. Mitigating poverty: The patterns of multiple carbon tax and recycling regimes for Peru[J],2021,149.
APA	Malerba D.,Gaentzsch A.,&Ward H..(2021).Mitigating poverty: The patterns of multiple carbon tax and recycling regimes for Peru.Energy Policy,149.
MLA	Malerba D.,et al."Mitigating poverty: The patterns of multiple carbon tax and recycling regimes for Peru".Energy Policy 149(2021).