Welfare impacts of introducing water pollution tax in the Olifants river basin in South Africa : a revisited analysis using a top-down micro- accounting approach

dc.contributor.authorKyei, Clement Kweku
dc.contributor.authorChitiga-Mabugu, Margaret
dc.contributor.emailmargaret.chitiga@up.ac.zaen_US
dc.date.accessioned2022-06-23T08:02:24Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.description.abstractAddressing the high levels of poverty and inequality in South Africa remains a central policy concern. In this regard, this paper uses a Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) microsimulation approach to revisit the effects of taxing water pollution on poverty and inequality at the level of a river basin. We combined the commodity and factor price changes from a regional environmental CGE model, after introducing the water pollution tax, with household survey data from the 2012 National Income Dynamics Survey (NIDS) to explain the welfare impacts. The result shows that the tax policy will in general have adverse impacts in terms of welfare, poverty, and inequality. However, the tax policy coupled with a supply-side compensatory measure such as subsidising water pollution abatement has the potential to reduce regional poverty and inequality as well as improve the ecological status of the river. Our finding has policy implications for national and regional water resource managers.en_US
dc.description.departmentSchool of Public Management and Administration (SPMA)en_US
dc.description.embargo2022-12-15
dc.description.librarianhj2022en_US
dc.description.urihttps://www.tandfonline.com/loi/ragr20en_US
dc.identifier.citationClement Kweku Kyei & Margaret Chitiga-Mabugu (2021) Welfare impacts of introducing water pollution tax in the Olifants river basin in South Africa: A revisited analysis using a top-down micro-accounting approach, Agrekon, 60:3, 253-263, DOI: 10.1080/03031853.2021.1937245.en_US
dc.identifier.issn0303-1853 (print)
dc.identifier.issn2078-0400 (online)
dc.identifier.other10.1080/03031853.2021.1937245
dc.identifier.urihttps://repository.up.ac.za/handle/2263/85920
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherRoutledgeen_US
dc.rights© 2021 Agricultural Economics Association of South Africa. This is an electronic version of an article published in Agrekon, vol. 60, no. 3, pp. 253-263, 2021. doi : 10.1080/03031853.2021.1937245. Agrekon is available online at : http://www.tandfonline.comloi/ragr20.en_US
dc.subjectPovertyen_US
dc.subjectInequalityen_US
dc.subjectMicrosimulationen_US
dc.subjectWater pollution taxen_US
dc.titleWelfare impacts of introducing water pollution tax in the Olifants river basin in South Africa : a revisited analysis using a top-down micro- accounting approachen_US
dc.typePostprint Articleen_US

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