Price and tax subsidies: effectiveness and challenges : Subvenciones a precios e impuestos: eficacia y desafios (Spanish)

Many governments use price and tax subsidization to meet social protection objectives. They endeavor to reduce the cost of living for their population-or for a subset of the population-by subsidizing the price of goods or services in lieu of, or in addition to, direct income transfers. While these subsidies may distort production incentives, subsidize the non-poor more than the poor, and limit consumer choice, there are reasons why a government may...
See More
Document also available in : Indonesian-Malay, Russian, English

DETAILS

  • Mackintosh,Fiona J.;
    Del Ninno,Carlo;

  • 2006/01/01

  • Brief

  • 33354

  • 1

  • 1

  • World,

  • Other,

  • 2010/07/01

  • Disclosed

  • Subvenciones a precios e impuestos: eficacia y desafios

  • adverse consequences

See More

DOWNLOADS

COMPLETE REPORT

Official version of document (may contain signatures, etc)

  • Official PDF

  • TXT*

  • Total Downloads** : 225

  • Download Stats

  • *The text version is uncorrected OCR text and is included solely to benefit users with slow connectivity.

Citation

Mackintosh,Fiona J.; Del Ninno,Carlo.

Price and tax subsidies: effectiveness and challenges : Subvenciones a precios e impuestos: eficacia y desafios (Spanish). Social Safety Nets Primer Notes; no. 4 Washington, DC: World Bank. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/628351468339658057

SUBSCRIBE TO EMAIL ALERTS

This document is being processed or is not available.