Foreign aid and oil taxes: helping the poor in oil-rich countries

Ruxanda Berlinschi and Julien Daubanes ()

Environment and Development Economics, 2012, vol. 17, issue 3, 249-268

Abstract: This paper proposes a theoretical analysis of the joint impact of foreign aid and oil taxes on the revenues of a rich oil importing country (North) and a two-class, oil exporting country (South). Without coordination, oil taxes are strictly higher in the North and the global allocation of oil is inefficient. Moreover, oil taxes in the North extract some of the South's oil rents, undoing the revenue transfers from foreign aid. We show that a policy coordination mechanism reduces inefficiencies and improves global welfare.

Date: 2012
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