Excessive financial secrecy facilitates illicit flows, which constitute a major developmental challenge for low-income economies and cause significant tax revenue losses governments around the world. In this paper we estimate semi-elasticity of cross-border assets to changes in how it differs countries at various income levels. We develop new dataset 2011–20 period, covers many specific policie...

The Transformation of Hunger Revisited We examine Trevon Logan’s 2009 claim to have found low levels of nutrition among British worker’s households in the late 19 century. Using the same data, we conclude that Logan’s estimates are thirty percent too low. Logan buttressed his estimates by claiming that the income elasticity of calories demand was unusually high among these households, relative ...

Processes causing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions benefit humans by providing consumer goods and services. This benefit, and hence the responsibility for emissions, varies by purpose or consumption category and is unevenly distributed across and within countries. We quantify greenhouse gas emissions associated with the final consumption of goods and services for 73 nations and 14 aggregate world...

Abstract: On December 2010, the government of Iran ended the decades-long subsidy program for bread and energy products and launched the Targeted Subsidy Reform program that considerably raised prices of food products. The objective of the study was to measure welfare impacts of food price changes on Iranian urban households between two survey data of 2009/10 and 2011/12 which were taken from I...

in this paper, using kakwani-son method, price elasticity of poverty is calculated for taxed edible goods in the year 2004. this elasticity shows the total effect of price changes on poverty. the total effect is the sum of redistribution and income effects of price change. in fact, the redistribution effect tells us whether an increase in the price of a commodity hurts the poor more than the ri...

Using panel data information from The WLA Global Lottery Data Compendium this paper estimates aggregate demand functions for lottery tickets in order to examine variation the income elasticity of worldwide. analysis uses a quantile regression approach. estimated elasticities are compared across quartiles and world regions. results provide evidence that significant both geographic areas distribu...