Authors: James Alm, Tulane University and H. Spencer Banzhaf, Georgia State University
Full title: Designing Economics Instruments for the Environment in a Decentralised Fiscal System
To read this paper, click on the link below.
Conference paper: Designing Economics Instruments
We are also delighted to publish two invited commentaries in response to Prof. Alm and Prof. Banzhaf’s paper, by Richard Bird, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, and Arik Levinson, Georgetown University.
We warmly welcome your responses to the paper and to Richard Bird’s and Arik Levinson’s commentaries. Please use the comments box at the foot of this post to leave a response – as always, we’re particularly interested in comments that engage substantively with the issues at hand. All comments are moderated.
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In developing countries (LDCs) the situation is different, because most of the industry is undertaken by the government. Then in this case how to deal with the sitution of pollution. The public sector is dominant. How to design an Economic Instrument?
how then are the economic instruments, going to solve already polluted environments?
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First of all I express sincere compliments to Professor James Alm and Professor H. Spencer Banzhaf for this excellent article.
As a developing country who implement regional autonomy at level the district and the city since 1999, the impact which immediately visible is the depletion of natural resources without control. This happens because there is no clear legal rules and conspiracy between the rulers and businessmen in the destruction of the environment.
Please help Professor, in conditions like this, what steps should our take in order to improve the quality of natural resources that there are.
Sincerely,
Ir. Yusma Damayanti, M.Si
Jambi University
Jambi Province – Indonesia