The Economics of Regional Poverty-Environment Programs: An Application for Lao People's Democratic Republic
Program administrators are often faced with the difficult problem of allocating scarce resources among regions in a country when interventions are aimed at addressing multiple objectives. One main concern is the tradeoff between poverty reduction a...
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okr-10986-147512021-04-23T14:03:20Z The Economics of Regional Poverty-Environment Programs: An Application for Lao People's Democratic Republic Buys, Piet Chomitz, Kenneth Dasgupta, Susmita Deichmann, Uwe Larsen, Bjorn Meisner, Craig Nygard, Jostein Pandey, Kiran Pinnoi, Nat Wheeler, David R. AIR POLLUTION ASSET INDICATORS AVERAGE POVERTY BUDGET ALLOCATIONS BUDGETARY ALLOCATIONS CASE STUDIES COST FUNCTIONS COUNTRY CONDITIONS DEFORESTATION DIMINISHING RETURNS ECONOMICS ELASTICITIES ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION ENVIRONMENTAL IMPROVEMENT ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEM ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES EXPENDITURES FISHERIES GDP GEOGRAPHIC TARGETING INCOME INCOME HOUSEHOLDS INDIVIDUAL POVERTY LOCAL CONDITIONS MACRO POLICY NATIONAL LEVEL NATIONAL LEVELS NATIONAL POVERTY POLICY RESEARCH POLITICAL ECONOMY POLLUTION POOR POOR HOUSEHOLDS POOR PEOPLE POOR PERSON POOR PERSONS POVERTY ERADICATION POVERTY GAP POVERTY INCIDENCE POVERTY INDICATORS POVERTY LINE POVERTY REDUCTION POVERTY SEVERITY PROGRAMS QUALITY OF SERVICES REGIONAL POVERTY RELATIVE POVERTY RESOURCE ALLOCATION RESOURCE CONSERVATION RURAL AREAS RURAL POPULATION SCALE ECONOMIES SERVICE DELIVERY SOIL DEGRADATION SUBSTITUTION ELASTICITIES SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TRADEOFFS WELFARE FUNCTION WILLINGNESS TO ACCEPT POVERTY MITIGATION ADMINISTRATIVE BUDGETS ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS ALLOTMENTS POVERTY INDICATORS PROVINCIAL FINANCES RESOURCE ALLOCATION Program administrators are often faced with the difficult problem of allocating scarce resources among regions in a country when interventions are aimed at addressing multiple objectives. One main concern is the tradeoff between poverty reduction and improvement of environmental quality. To provide a framework for analysis, the authors develop a model of optimal budget allocation that allows for variations in three factors: administrators' valuation of objectives; their willingness to accept tradeoffs among objectives and regional allotments; and regional administrative costs. The results from an application of this model using information for Lao People's Democratic Republic show that simple poverty indicators alone do not provide consistent guidelines for policy. However, when different poverty indicators are embedded in an optimizing model that incorporates preferences and costs, the resulting provincial allocations are very similar. This suggests that adoption of a formal analytical approach to resource allocation can help promote the harmonization of regional policy guidelines. 2013-08-01T20:13:22Z 2013-08-01T20:13:22Z 2004-04 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2004/04/3540673/economics-regional-poverty-environment-programs-application-lao-peoples-democratic-republic http://hdl.handle.net/10986/14751 English en_US Policy Research Working Paper;No.3267 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank World Bank, Washington, D.C. Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Publications & Research East Asia and Pacific Lao People's Democratic Republic |
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AIR POLLUTION ASSET INDICATORS AVERAGE POVERTY BUDGET ALLOCATIONS BUDGETARY ALLOCATIONS CASE STUDIES COST FUNCTIONS COUNTRY CONDITIONS DEFORESTATION DIMINISHING RETURNS ECONOMICS ELASTICITIES ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION ENVIRONMENTAL IMPROVEMENT ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEM ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES EXPENDITURES FISHERIES GDP GEOGRAPHIC TARGETING INCOME INCOME HOUSEHOLDS INDIVIDUAL POVERTY LOCAL CONDITIONS MACRO POLICY NATIONAL LEVEL NATIONAL LEVELS NATIONAL POVERTY POLICY RESEARCH POLITICAL ECONOMY POLLUTION POOR POOR HOUSEHOLDS POOR PEOPLE POOR PERSON POOR PERSONS POVERTY ERADICATION POVERTY GAP POVERTY INCIDENCE POVERTY INDICATORS POVERTY LINE POVERTY REDUCTION POVERTY SEVERITY PROGRAMS QUALITY OF SERVICES REGIONAL POVERTY RELATIVE POVERTY RESOURCE ALLOCATION RESOURCE CONSERVATION RURAL AREAS RURAL POPULATION SCALE ECONOMIES SERVICE DELIVERY SOIL DEGRADATION SUBSTITUTION ELASTICITIES SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TRADEOFFS WELFARE FUNCTION WILLINGNESS TO ACCEPT POVERTY MITIGATION ADMINISTRATIVE BUDGETS ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS ALLOTMENTS POVERTY INDICATORS PROVINCIAL FINANCES RESOURCE ALLOCATION |
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AIR POLLUTION ASSET INDICATORS AVERAGE POVERTY BUDGET ALLOCATIONS BUDGETARY ALLOCATIONS CASE STUDIES COST FUNCTIONS COUNTRY CONDITIONS DEFORESTATION DIMINISHING RETURNS ECONOMICS ELASTICITIES ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION ENVIRONMENTAL IMPROVEMENT ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEM ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES EXPENDITURES FISHERIES GDP GEOGRAPHIC TARGETING INCOME INCOME HOUSEHOLDS INDIVIDUAL POVERTY LOCAL CONDITIONS MACRO POLICY NATIONAL LEVEL NATIONAL LEVELS NATIONAL POVERTY POLICY RESEARCH POLITICAL ECONOMY POLLUTION POOR POOR HOUSEHOLDS POOR PEOPLE POOR PERSON POOR PERSONS POVERTY ERADICATION POVERTY GAP POVERTY INCIDENCE POVERTY INDICATORS POVERTY LINE POVERTY REDUCTION POVERTY SEVERITY PROGRAMS QUALITY OF SERVICES REGIONAL POVERTY RELATIVE POVERTY RESOURCE ALLOCATION RESOURCE CONSERVATION RURAL AREAS RURAL POPULATION SCALE ECONOMIES SERVICE DELIVERY SOIL DEGRADATION SUBSTITUTION ELASTICITIES SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TRADEOFFS WELFARE FUNCTION WILLINGNESS TO ACCEPT POVERTY MITIGATION ADMINISTRATIVE BUDGETS ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS ALLOTMENTS POVERTY INDICATORS PROVINCIAL FINANCES RESOURCE ALLOCATION Buys, Piet Chomitz, Kenneth Dasgupta, Susmita Deichmann, Uwe Larsen, Bjorn Meisner, Craig Nygard, Jostein Pandey, Kiran Pinnoi, Nat Wheeler, David R. The Economics of Regional Poverty-Environment Programs: An Application for Lao People's Democratic Republic |
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East Asia and Pacific Lao People's Democratic Republic |
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Policy Research Working Paper;No.3267 |
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Program administrators are often faced
with the difficult problem of allocating scarce resources
among regions in a country when interventions are aimed at
addressing multiple objectives. One main concern is the
tradeoff between poverty reduction and improvement of
environmental quality. To provide a framework for analysis,
the authors develop a model of optimal budget allocation
that allows for variations in three factors:
administrators' valuation of objectives; their
willingness to accept tradeoffs among objectives and
regional allotments; and regional administrative costs. The
results from an application of this model using information
for Lao People's Democratic Republic show that simple
poverty indicators alone do not provide consistent
guidelines for policy. However, when different poverty
indicators are embedded in an optimizing model that
incorporates preferences and costs, the resulting provincial
allocations are very similar. This suggests that adoption of
a formal analytical approach to resource allocation can help
promote the harmonization of regional policy guidelines. |
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Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper |
| author |
Buys, Piet Chomitz, Kenneth Dasgupta, Susmita Deichmann, Uwe Larsen, Bjorn Meisner, Craig Nygard, Jostein Pandey, Kiran Pinnoi, Nat Wheeler, David R. |
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Buys, Piet Chomitz, Kenneth Dasgupta, Susmita Deichmann, Uwe Larsen, Bjorn Meisner, Craig Nygard, Jostein Pandey, Kiran Pinnoi, Nat Wheeler, David R. |
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Buys, Piet |
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The Economics of Regional Poverty-Environment Programs: An Application for Lao People's Democratic Republic |
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The Economics of Regional Poverty-Environment Programs: An Application for Lao People's Democratic Republic |
| title_full |
The Economics of Regional Poverty-Environment Programs: An Application for Lao People's Democratic Republic |
| title_fullStr |
The Economics of Regional Poverty-Environment Programs: An Application for Lao People's Democratic Republic |
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The Economics of Regional Poverty-Environment Programs: An Application for Lao People's Democratic Republic |
| title_sort |
economics of regional poverty-environment programs: an application for lao people's democratic republic |
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World Bank, Washington, D.C. |
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2013 |
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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2004/04/3540673/economics-regional-poverty-environment-programs-application-lao-peoples-democratic-republic http://hdl.handle.net/10986/14751 |
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