This paper describes how wealth inequality may distort public resource allocation. A government seeks to allocate limited resources to productive sectors, but sectoral productivity is privately known by agents with vested interests in those sectors. They lobby the government for preferential treatment. The government—even if it honestly seeks to maximize economic efficiency—may be confounded by...

in regard to both implementation of the second phase of targeted subsidises and the effect of inflation resulted from first phase of it on economic of country, inflation content estimation on economic of country especially agriculture sector is necessary. in this research effect of increasing price of energy carriers on inflation in various reproduction sectors such as agriculture was investiga...

Investing in infrastructure and industry sectors can lessen the direct impacts of disruptive events, and a risk-based input-output model can demonstrate how those direct impacts propagate to other economic sectors. We develop and compare two different decision models to determine the optimal resource allocation to assist impacted sectors to recover. The first decision model minimizes direct imp...

Governments use redistributive policies to favor relatively unproductive economic sectors. Traditional economic wisdom teaches that the government should instead buy out the agents in these sectors, and let them relocate to more productive sectors.We show that redistribution to a sector whose agents have highly correlated incomes generates an insurance value. Taking this insurance value into ac...

The Salmon industry in Norway includes three sectors, namely sea and river fishing for wild salmon, and salmon farming, or aquaculture. The three sectors provide different social, economic and cultural benefits to society, but also facemany problems and challenges. They have different interests, practices, traditions and audiences, and are also administered by different authorities and regulate...

BACKGROUND Health in All Policies (HiAP) is a form of intersectoral action that aims to include the promotion of health in government initiatives across sectors. To date, there has been little study of economic considerations within the implementation of HiAP. METHODS As part of an ongoing program of research on the implementation of HiAP around the world, we examined how economic considerati...

due to the different nature of the production structure in economic sectors, growth in these sectors has a different effect on employment. on the other hand, according to market analysis by gender, the impact on job creation in economic sectors is also different for men and women. in this paper, we use social accounting matrix (sam) model for iran to assess how growth in various sectors of the ...

In times of economic austerity, governments faced with declining revenues and political restraints on increasing taxes, must resort to major budgetary cutbacks. However, relatively little is known about how the governments of developing countries make expenditure decisions, or perhaps more importantly, how they trade off between consumption and investment or between functional categories of exp...