The effects of environmental taxes on environmental pollution and unemployment: A panel co‐integration analysis on the validity of double dividend hypothesis for selected African countries

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tunahan Degirmenci ◽  
Mehmet Aydin
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Pollution ◽  
Double Dividend ◽  
Environmental Taxes ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Integration Analysis

Study on Environmental Tax

2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 12-23
Author(s):  
Huifeng Li ◽  
Xuanwei Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Environmental Pollution ◽  
Theoretical Foundation ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Environmental Taxes ◽  
Environmental Tax ◽  
Tax System ◽  
Effective Measure ◽  
Industrial Age ◽  
The Status

Since the industrial age, along with the promotion of economic development, problems of ecological destruction and environmental pollution are becoming more serious. To solve this problem, the implementation of environmental tax is an effective measure. Based on the analysis of the theoretical foundation of environmental taxes, international practice and experience in environmental tax system, in this paper, the authors describe the status quo of China’s environmental tax system, and frames the further step strategy in building China’s environmental tax system.

Do Environmental Taxes Yield a Double Dividend?

1995 ◽  
pp. 52-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Lans Bovenberg ◽  
Ruud A. de Mooij
Keyword(s):  
Double Dividend ◽  
Environmental Taxes

Shadow Economy and Environmental Pollution in West African Countries: The Role of Institutions

2021 ◽  
pp. 097491012110490
Author(s):  
James Temitope Dada ◽  
Folorunsho Monsur Ajide ◽  
Adams Adeiza
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Pollution ◽  
Shadow Economy ◽  
Interactive Effect ◽  
Generalized Method Of Moments ◽  
Threshold Value ◽  
Threshold Level ◽  
Law And Order ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Multiple Indicators

This study deviates from extant studies by examining the effect of shadow economy (SE) on environmental pollution, and the role institutional indicators play in moderating the effect in West Africa between 1992 and 2015. Specifically, the study employed three institutional indicators (corruption control [COR], law and order [LAW], and bureaucratic quality [BUQ]) to mediate the effect and also determine its threshold values. SE is measured using Multiple Indicators Multiple Causes (MIMIC) while environmental pollution is proxy by carbon dioxide (CO2) per capita. Two step system Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) is used to drive out the conclusions of the study. The findings reveal that SE, COR and LAW contribute significantly to environmental pollution, while BUQ though not significant, reduces environmental pollution in the region. Further, the interactive effect of SE with all the institutional indicators shows that strong institutional indicators abate environmental pollution through reduction in the presence of SE. The threshold value of institutional indicators, which reduces SE and abates environmental pollution, are 3.8 and 3.7 for COR, and LAW, respectively, on an ordinary scale of 0–6, while 2.8 for BUQ on an ordinary scale of 0–4. Nevertheless, most of the countries in the region operate below the threshold level of institutional indicators in the region. The results are robust to different proxies of environmental pollution. The implications of the study are discussed.

Study on Environmental Tax

2012 ◽  
pp. 1213-1225
Author(s):  
Huifeng Li ◽  
Xuanwei Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Environmental Pollution ◽  
Theoretical Foundation ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Environmental Taxes ◽  
Environmental Tax ◽  
Tax System ◽  
Effective Measure ◽  
Industrial Age ◽  
The Status

Since the industrial age, along with the promotion of economic development, problems of ecological destruction and environmental pollution are becoming more serious. To solve this problem, the implementation of environmental tax is an effective measure. Based on the analysis of the theoretical foundation of environmental taxes, international practice and experience in environmental tax system, in this paper, the authors describe the status quo of China’s environmental tax system, and frames the further step strategy in building China’s environmental tax system.

Study on Environmental Tax

2012 ◽  
pp. 207-219 ◽  
Author(s):  
Huifeng Li ◽  
Xuanwei Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Environmental Pollution ◽  
Theoretical Foundation ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Environmental Taxes ◽  
Environmental Tax ◽  
Tax System ◽  
Effective Measure ◽  
Industrial Age ◽  
The Status

Since the industrial age, along with the promotion of economic development, problems of ecological destruction and environmental pollution are becoming more serious. To solve this problem, the implementation of environmental tax is an effective measure. Based on the analysis of the theoretical foundation of environmental taxes, international practice and experience in environmental tax system, in this paper, the authors describe the status quo of China’s environmental tax system, and frames the further step strategy in building China’s environmental tax system.

A Note on Weak Double Dividends

2004 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gilbert E. Metcalf ◽  
Mustafa H. Babiker ◽  
John Reilly
Keyword(s):  
Tax Reform ◽  
Double Dividend ◽  
Environmental Taxes ◽  
Environmental Tax ◽  
Tax Rates ◽  
Green Tax Reform ◽  
Tax Revenues ◽  
Lump Sum

Abstract A weak double-dividend is the proposition that the welfare improvement from a green tax reform, where the revenue from an environmental tax is used to reduce other tax rates, must be greater than the welfare improvement from a reform where the environmental taxes are returned in a lump sum fashion. We show in this note that a weak double-dividend need not hold in a world with multiple distortions. In an economy with multiple distortions one must choose carefully which tax rates to reduce, or one can do worse than a lump sum redistribution of the environmental tax revenues.

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