Towards a Unified Scheme for Environmental and Social Protection: Learning from PES and CCT Experiences in Developing Countries

Environmental protection and poverty alleviation in the developing world are usually heralded as joint objectives. However, these two goals are often associated with different sectoral policy instruments. While so-called payments for environmental services (PES) are increasingly being promoted for e...

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Main Authors:	Rodriguez, Luis C., Pascual, Unai, Muradian, Roldan, Pazmino, Nathalie, Whitten, Stuart
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	EN
Published:	2012
Subjects:	Taxation and Subsidies: Externalities Redistributive Effects Environmental Taxes and Subsidies H230 Welfare and Poverty: Government Programs Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs I380 Economic Development: Agriculture Natural Resources Energy Environment Other Primary Products O130 Economic Development: Human Resources Human Development Income Distribution Migration O150 Environmental Economics: Government Policy Q580
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spelling	okr-10986-48962021-04-23T14:02:20Z Towards a Unified Scheme for Environmental and Social Protection: Learning from PES and CCT Experiences in Developing Countries Rodriguez, Luis C. Pascual, Unai Muradian, Roldan Pazmino, Nathalie Whitten, Stuart Taxation and Subsidies: Externalities Redistributive Effects Environmental Taxes and Subsidies H230 Welfare and Poverty: Government Programs Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs I380 Economic Development: Agriculture Natural Resources Energy Environment Other Primary Products O130 Economic Development: Human Resources Human Development Income Distribution Migration O150 Environmental Economics: Government Policy Q580 Environmental protection and poverty alleviation in the developing world are usually heralded as joint objectives. However, these two goals are often associated with different sectoral policy instruments. While so-called payments for environmental services (PES) are increasingly being promoted for environmental protection, poverty alleviation is increasingly addressed by conditional cash transfers (CCT) program. These instruments although aimed to achieve distinct objectives have a number of similarities and challenges in their design and implementation phases. This paper elaborates on these similarities and develops a unifying generic framework that is used to discuss the extent to which both approaches could be unified. 2012-03-30T07:30:16Z 2012-03-30T07:30:16Z 2011 Journal Article Ecological Economics 09218009 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/4896 EN http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Journal Article
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topic	Taxation and Subsidies: Externalities Redistributive Effects Environmental Taxes and Subsidies H230 Welfare and Poverty: Government Programs Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs I380 Economic Development: Agriculture Natural Resources Energy Environment Other Primary Products O130 Economic Development: Human Resources Human Development Income Distribution Migration O150 Environmental Economics: Government Policy Q580
spellingShingle	Taxation and Subsidies: Externalities Redistributive Effects Environmental Taxes and Subsidies H230 Welfare and Poverty: Government Programs Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs I380 Economic Development: Agriculture Natural Resources Energy Environment Other Primary Products O130 Economic Development: Human Resources Human Development Income Distribution Migration O150 Environmental Economics: Government Policy Q580 Rodriguez, Luis C. Pascual, Unai Muradian, Roldan Pazmino, Nathalie Whitten, Stuart Towards a Unified Scheme for Environmental and Social Protection: Learning from PES and CCT Experiences in Developing Countries
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description	Environmental protection and poverty alleviation in the developing world are usually heralded as joint objectives. However, these two goals are often associated with different sectoral policy instruments. While so-called payments for environmental services (PES) are increasingly being promoted for environmental protection, poverty alleviation is increasingly addressed by conditional cash transfers (CCT) program. These instruments although aimed to achieve distinct objectives have a number of similarities and challenges in their design and implementation phases. This paper elaborates on these similarities and develops a unifying generic framework that is used to discuss the extent to which both approaches could be unified.
format	Journal Article
author	Rodriguez, Luis C. Pascual, Unai Muradian, Roldan Pazmino, Nathalie Whitten, Stuart
author_facet	Rodriguez, Luis C. Pascual, Unai Muradian, Roldan Pazmino, Nathalie Whitten, Stuart
author_sort	Rodriguez, Luis C.
title	Towards a Unified Scheme for Environmental and Social Protection: Learning from PES and CCT Experiences in Developing Countries
title_short	Towards a Unified Scheme for Environmental and Social Protection: Learning from PES and CCT Experiences in Developing Countries
title_full	Towards a Unified Scheme for Environmental and Social Protection: Learning from PES and CCT Experiences in Developing Countries
title_fullStr	Towards a Unified Scheme for Environmental and Social Protection: Learning from PES and CCT Experiences in Developing Countries
title_full_unstemmed	Towards a Unified Scheme for Environmental and Social Protection: Learning from PES and CCT Experiences in Developing Countries
title_sort	towards a unified scheme for environmental and social protection: learning from pes and cct experiences in developing countries
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Towards a Unified Scheme for Environmental and Social Protection: Learning from PES and CCT Experiences in Developing Countries

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