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Fuel Conservation Policies in the Indian Car Market: Examining the Welfare Effects

India’s car market has expanded rapidly since the country’s economic reforms in the early 1990s, a trend that is expected to continue well into the future; its passenger fleet alone is projected to swell from 22 million to 112 million vehicles between 2010 and 2030. In the wake of this growth, India is considering the […]

RFF Feature: Gasoline Taxes: Implications for Public Transit and Rural Areas

Two new RFF discussion papers highlight the effects of gasoline taxes in metropolitan and rural areas, examining outcomes for public transit and welfare impacts. Click here to read the full paper.

From Resources Magazine: Why Fuel Taxes aren’t Always Regressive

The current issue of Resources magazine focuses on balancing environmental protection with economic growth in developing countries. Obviously, distributional issues are extremely important, especially where the goal of poverty alleviation starts to conflict with environmental policy. It turns out that fuel taxes, a potentially important method of achieving environmental goals, don’t disproprotionately hurth the poor - […]