Intra-Country Distributional Impact of Policies to Fight Climate Change: A Survey

Dorothee Boccanfuso, Antonio Estache and Luc Savard

No 2008_038, Working Papers ECARES from ULB -- Universite Libre de Bruxelles

Abstract: In this paper we present a survey of distributional impact analysis of environmental policies envisaged or implemented to reduce greenhouse gaz emissions. The implementation of these policies usually aim at reducing greenhouse gases directly or indirectly. However, these policies can also produce important changes in factor allocation, relative prices in specific countries as well as on world markets when these policies are adopted by a large number of countries. The changes in welfare can be important for vulnerable groups of population in developing countries. This survey reviews the evidence on the incidence of these policies. In the process, it shows that the computable general equilibrium (CGE) microsimulation approach has not been fully exploited in the context of distributional impact analysis of CC policies.

Keywords: Global warming; environmental policies; income distribution; developing countries (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D58 D60 H23 O13 Q52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 36 p.
Date: 2008
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