Cash transfers for pro-poor carbon taxes in Latin America and the Caribbean
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14230%2F19%3A00127757" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14230/19:00127757 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-019-0385-0" target="_blank" >https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-019-0385-0</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41893-019-0385-0" target="_blank" >10.1038/s41893-019-0385-0</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Cash transfers for pro-poor carbon taxes in Latin America and the Caribbean
Original language description
Carbon taxes are advocated as efficient fiscal and environmental policy tools, but they have proven difficult to implement. One reason is that carbon taxes can aggravate poverty by increasing prices of basic goods and services such as food, heating and commuting. Meanwhile, cash transfer programmes have been established as some of the most efficient poverty-reducing policies used in developing countries. We quantify how governments could mitigate negative social consequences of carbon taxes by expanding the beneficiary base or the amounts disbursed with existing cash transfer programmes. We focus on Latin America and the Caribbean, a region that has pioneered cash transfer programmes, aspires to contribute to climate mitigation and faces inequality. We find that 30% of carbon revenues could suffice to compensate poor and vulnerable households on average, leaving 70% to fund other political priorities. We also quantify trade-offs for governments choosing who and how much to compensate.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50704 - Environmental sciences (social aspects)
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2019
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Nature Sustainability
ISSN
2398-9629
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
2
Issue of the periodical within the volume
10
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
8
Pages from-to
941-948
UT code for WoS article
000489530200016
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85073516263