Book Description
The identification of the winners and losers and the effects on distributions of revenues of populations and of certain particularly vulnerable groups are important elements to consider in the analysis of distributional impacts of environmental policies, as Markandya (1998) points out. [...] Moreover, in the context of developing countries, if the CC policies are regressive and affect large portions of vulnerable population groups, the implementation of environmental policies to reduce GHGs could conflict with the achievement of at least some of the millennium development goals (MDGs). [...] The relative importance of the targeted goods in the consumption basket of the poor is the key element in this equation (Serret and Johnstone (2006)). [...] For any government concerned with the well-being of the poor or the fair distribution of the burden of policies, the assessment of the ultimate incidence of any CC policy is thus a necessity. [...] This is why the voices of concern over the negative impact of increasing prices for food staples on the welfare of vulnerable groups in developing countries are so loud and increasingly so.5 3. Modeling the distributional impact of CC and environmental policies This section organizes the overview of the evidence on the distributional effects of CC and environmental policies according the methods u.
