EfD Newsletter -Jan 12

EfD Newsletter 2012-02-01

Designing policy instruments and bringing them to the attention of policy makers is a major objective for the EfD initiative. An important contribution to this effect is the publication of the new edition of the text book on Policy Instruments for Environmental and Natural Resource Management by Thomas Sterner and Jessica Coria.
Thomas also launched the book Fuel Taxes and the Poor: The Distributional Effects of Gasoline Taxation and Their Implications for Climate Policy, at the University of Cape Town on January 11, 2012. Since the book argues that gasoline taxes do not hurt the poor he was interviewed by the tv-channel CNBC Africa/ABN in light of the recent Fuel Subsidy Strike in Nigeria. But not only that, this week Thomas gives a keynote lecture at the 2nd Annual Conference of the EAAERE in Indonesia where he draws on yet another new book that evaluates “PROPER”, a system for environmental information disclosure and firm rating in Indonesia. You can learn more about all of this, and much more, by clicking the links below…

Gunnar Köhlin, Director Environment for Development initiative

Peer reviewed
Climate change | Policy design | Michael Cox |
Advancing the diagnostic analysis of environmental problems
Climate change | Policy design | Eeu sweden | Jessica Coria |
Taxes, permits and costly policy response to technological change
Policy design | Kenya | Simon Wagura | Wilfred Nyangena |
Environmental goods collection and children’s schooling: evidence from Kenya
Agriculture | Policy design | Ethiopia | Klaus Deininger | Tekie Alemu |
Assessing the Functioning of Land Rental Markets in Ethiopia

Policy briefs
Forestry | Tanzania | Razack Lokina | Elizabeth Robinson | H.J. Albers |
Improving forest management in Tanzania

Books/Book Chapters
Policy design | Eeu sweden | Thomas Sterner | Jessica Coria |
Policy Instruments for Environmental and Natural Resource Management
Behavior ec. | Central america | Francisco Alpízar |
Experimentos de Campo y Economía del Desarrollo

Projects
Agriculture | Tanzania | John Mduma | Onesmo Selejio | Stephen Kirama |
The impact of fertilizer subsidy on cereal crops production and Land conservation in Tanzania
Climate change | Forestry | Tanzania | Elizabeth Robinson | H.J. Albers | Razack Lokina |
Group decisions over the allocation of REDD payments: An example from Tanzania

News
Behavior ec. | Climate change | Policy design | Central america |
Paul J. Ferraro to EfD-Central America Center at CATIE, Costa Rica

Reports
Upcoming Events
Job openings
Other

The Environment for Development initiative is a capacity building program in environmental economics focused on international research collaboration, policy advice, and academic training. It consists of centers in Central America, China, Ethiopia, Kenya, South Africa, and Tanzania, in partnership with the Environmental Economics Unit at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden and Resources for the Future in Washington, DC. Financial support is provided by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida).
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