The distributional impact of reforms in the housing and communal sector in Russia
This paper originally appeared as a Master Thesis at NES in 2001 as a part of the project "Evaluation of Tax Benefit Reforms", which was carried out within the program "Russian Economic and Political Institutions in Transitions" generously sponsored by Ford Foundation, National Training Foundation, World Bank, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. I am deeply indebted to the project Anthony Shorrocks (NES, UNU/WIDER) and Evsey Gurvich (Ministry of Finance of the RF, Economic Expert Group) for their great contribution to this research.
WHO PAYS FOR A PUBLIC EXPENDITURE PROGRAM?
Jnterest is growing rapidly in the empirical question of how various government expenditure programs affect different population groups.1 It is but a short step from this question to a related one: how does the distribution of benefits from a particular program compare with the distribution of taxes that pay for these benefits ? Several recent studies have provided quantitative answers to this second question, but there has been little analysis of what it means to talk about the burden of taxes for a
AN INTRODUCTION T O THE SOILS OF THE SOUTH-EASTERN PORTION OF THE AUSTRALIAN ARID ZONE
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Seven soil regions, each of which is dominated by soils belonging to one or two great soil groups, are defined and mapped. The outstanding feature is the presence of a variety of soils with widely differing characteristics. The soils are deeper, have more profile differentiation and are finer-extured than those in most-arid regions and are frequently overlain by currently-forming deposits of wind-transported materials. Because the vegetative cover is better developed and there are only small areas of rocky hills and bare rock pediments, water erosion and deposition are not as prominent as in other arid areas.