Peasants versus city-dwellers : taxation and the burden of economic development / Raaj K. Sah, Joseph E. Stiglitz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sah, Raaj Kumar.

Contributor:

Stiglitz, Joseph E.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rural development--Developing countries.

Rural development.

Rural poor--Taxation--Developing countries.

Rural poor.

Income distribution--Developing countries.

Income distribution.

Taxation--Developing countries.

Taxation.

Developing countries--Economic policy.

Developing countries.

Developing countries--Economic conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (238 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1992.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this book Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz and co-author Raaj Sah address one of development's major issues. Most of today's countries face town versus country tensions of increasing severity, including such issues as who should pay how much in taxes, who should get how much in subsidies, and what forms the taxes and subsidies should take. This volume analyses these tensions and issues, taking into account the great diversity of institutions and economicenvironments observed in different developing countries.

Contents:

PREFACE; Contents; PART I: AN INTRODUCTION TO ISSUES AND METHODOLOGY; 1. INTRODUCTION; 1.1 Normative versus Positive Analysis; 1.2 Analysis under Limited Data Availability; 1.3 Policy and Political Economy; 1.4 General-Equilibrium Analysis; 1.5 The Structure of the Book; 1.6 The Nature of the Results; 1.7 Some Remarks on the Role of Theory; 2. THE OBJECTIVES AND INSTRUMENTS OF GOVERNMENT POLICY AND THE STRUCTURE OF THE ECONOMY IN LDCs; 2.1 Stated Objectives of Food-Related Policies; 2.2 Putting Agricultural Policies in Perspective; 2.3 The Economic Structure of LDCs; 2.4 Concluding Remarks

3. AN APPROACH TO APPLIED WELFARE ECONOMICS3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Theoretical Background; 3.3 Applied Welfare Economics for LDCs; PART II: INTER-SECTORAL TAXATION POLICIES; 4. RURAL-URBAN PRICES IN OPEN ECONOMIES; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 A Simple Model; 4.3 Analysis of Changes in Agricultural and Industrial Prices; 4.4 Price-Productivity Effects; Appendix; 5. THE PRICE SCISSORS IN OPEN ECONOMIES; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Effects on the Investible Surplus of Changes in the Price Scissors; 5.3 Welfare Effects of Changing the Price Scissors; 5.4 Optimal Price Scissors; 5.5 Concluding Remarks

6. THE PRICE SCISSORS IN CLOSED AND PARTIALLY CLOSED SOCIALIST ECONOMIES6.1 Introduction; 6.2 The Model; 6.3 Reform in the Price Scissors; 6.4 Optimal Price Scissors; 6.5 Economies with Traded and Non-Traded Goods; 6.6 Concluding Remarks; Appendix; 7. THE SOVIET INDUSTRIALIZATION DEBATE AND COLLECTIVIZATION; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 Preobrazhensky's Propositions; 7.3 The Correct Size of the Price Scissors; 7.4 Collectivization; 7.5 A Postscript on the Soviet Debate; PART III: THE RURAL SECTOR; 8. INCOME DISTRIBUTION AND ALTERNATIVE ORGANIZATIONAL FORMS WITHIN THE RURAL SECTOR; 8.1 Introduction

8.2 Distributional Effects8.3 Alternative Forms of Rural Organization; 8.4 Effects of Wages and Prices on Rural Productivity; 8.5 Concluding Remarks; 9. TAXES AND SUBSIDIES ON DIFFERENT GOODS IN THE RURAL SECTOR; 9.1 Introduction; 9.2 A General Formulation; 9.3 Informationally Parsimonious Pareto-Improving Price Reforms for Cash-Crops and Manufactured Inputs; 9.4 Should Some Cash-Crops or Manufactured Inputs be Taxed and Others Subsidized?; 9.5 Some Caveats; Appendix; PART IV: THE URBAN SECTOR; 10. THE IMPACT OF URBAN WAGE AND EMPLOYMENT DETERMINATION ON TAXATION POLICIES; 10.1 Introduction

10.2 A General Formulation of Urban Wage-Determination10.3 Urban-Rural Prices with an Endogenous Urban Wage; 10.4 Price Scissors with Endogenous Wages; 10.5 Endogenous Urban Wage versus Government-Controlled Urban Wage: Which is the Appropriate Assumption for LDCs?; 10.6 Note on the Urban Wage Fixed in Terms of the Utility Level; 10.7 Urban Unemployment; 11. SOME ASPECTS OF THE WAGE-PRODUCTIVITY HYPOTHESIS THAT ARE RELEVANT FOR TAXATION ANALYSIS; 11.1 Introduction; 11.2 Why Do Wages and Prices Affect Productivity?; 11.3 A Model of Wages, Prices, Productivity, and Unemployment

12. TAXES AND SUBSIDIES ON DIFFERENT GOODS IN THE URBAN SECTOR

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-215) and index.

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ISBN:

1-281-97821-3

OCLC:

922953825