Innovative Sources of Development Finance: Global Cooperation in the Twenty‐first Century

Jha, Raghbendra

doi:10.1111/j.1467-9701.2004.00596.x

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“…From this perspective, we follow the literature on innovative sources of development finance. For instance, Jha (2004) explicitly considers carbon taxes as a potential mechanism to raise resources. Likewise, a recent World Bank (2013) report on post-2015 development finance identifies carbon pricing as a promising mechanism to generate new funds.…”

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Carbon Pricing Revenues Could Close Infrastructure Access Gaps

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Introducing a price on greenhouse gas emissions would not only contribute to reducing the risk of dangerous anthropogenic climate change, but would also generate substantial public revenues. Some of these revenues could be used to cover investment needs for infrastructure providing access to water, sanitation, electricity, telecommunications and transport. In this way, emission pricing could promote sustainable socioeconomic development by safeguarding the stability of natural systems which constitute the material basis of economies, while at the same time providing public goods that are essential for human well-being. For a scenario that is consistent with limiting global warming to below 2°C, we find that domestic carbon pricing (without redistribution of revenues across countries) has substantial potential to close existing access gaps for water, sanitation, electricity, and telecommunication. However, for the majority of countries carbon pricing revenues would not be sufficient to pave all unpaved roads, and for most countries in Sub-Saharan Africa they would be insufficient 1 to provide universal access to all types of infrastructure except water. If some fraction of the global revenues of carbon pricing is redistributed, e.g. via the Green Climate Fund, more ambitious infrastructure access goals could be achieved in developing countries. Our paper also bears relevance for the design of climate finance mechanisms, as it suggests that supporting carbon pricing policies instead of project based finance might not only permit cost-efficient emission reductions, but also leverage public revenues to promote human development goals.

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“…Selon le Groupe d'experts intergouvernemental sur l'évolution du climat (IPCC), une taxation de cent dollars par tonne de carbone émis pourrait réduire les émissions de cinq milliards de tonnes d'ici à 2020 (cité par Jha, 2004).…”

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“…Les taxes mondiales les plus « populaires » sont les suivantes : taxe mondiale de protection de l'environnement (écotaxe), « taxe Tobin » sur les opérations de change et taxe mondiale sur les ventes d'armes. De nombreuses autres propositions dans ce domaine (voir par exemple Jha, 2004) n'ont toutefois pas bénéficié de la même attention de l'opinion publique : taxe sur les transports aériens (sur le kérosène, les billets d'avion ou les aéroports), taxe sur les données transmises par l'Internet, ou encore taxe sur le commerce mondial (la base d'imposition correspondant, exceptionnellement, à un « bien » et non à un « mal » public). Comme on peut le voir au tableau 2, les écotaxes mondiales sont celles qui répondent le mieux à certains critères importants, comme le rendement potentiel et autres avantages connexes.…”

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Financer les objectifs du millénaire pour le développement

Reisen

2004

Cahiers De Politique Économique Du Centre De Développement De l'OCDE

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“…Some economists, as well as Greenhill R. and Prizzon, A [4], Head J. [5] Jha R. [7], Mirkin Ya.M. [8][9], Nissanke M. [11], Shafik, N. [14], Strange A., Parks B.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%