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Could Resource Rents Finance Universal Access to Infrastructure? A First Exploration of Needs and Rents

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  • Fuss, Sabine
  • Chen, Claudine
  • Jakob, Michael
  • Marxen, Annika
  • Rao, Narasimha D.
  • Edenhofer, Ottmar

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It is often argued that, ethically, resource rents should accrue to all citizens. Yet in reality the rents from exploiting national resources are often concentrated in the hands of a few. If resource rents were to be taxed, on the other hand, substantial amounts of public money could be raised and used to cover the population’s infrastructure needs, such as access to electricity, water, sanitation, communication technology and roads, which all play important roles in a nation’s economic development process. Here, we examine to what extent existing resource rents could be used to provide universal access to these infrastructures.

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  • Fuss, Sabine & Chen, Claudine & Jakob, Michael & Marxen, Annika & Rao, Narasimha D. & Edenhofer, Ottmar, "undated". "Could Resource Rents Finance Universal Access to Infrastructure? A First Exploration of Needs and Rents," Climate Change and Sustainable Development 230601, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM).
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:feemcl:230601
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.230601
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    1. Kalkuhl, Matthias & Fernandez Milan, Blanca & Schwerhoff, Gregor & Jakob, Michael & Hahnen, Maren & Creutzig, Felix, 2017. "Fiscal Instruments for Sustainable Development: The Case of Land Taxes," MPRA Paper 78652, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    2. Stratford, Beth, 2020. "The Threat of Rent Extraction in a Resource-constrained Future," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 169(C).
    3. Yu, Yun & Lei, Yalin, 2017. "China's provincial exhaustible resources rent and produced capital stock—Based on Hartwick's rule," Resources Policy, Elsevier, vol. 52(C), pages 114-121.
    4. Jakob, Michael & Chen, Claudine & Fuss, Sabine & Marxen, Annika & Rao, Narasimha & Edenhofer, Ottmar, "undated". "Using Carbon Pricing Revenues to Finance Infrastructure Access," Climate Change and Sustainable Development 230602, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM).
    5. Achua, Joseph Kwaghkor & Yusuf, Mariam & Wakdok, Samuel Stephen, 2022. "Nonlinear public debt and resource rent nexus in highly indebted resource-rich sub-Saharan economies: Evidence from Nigeria," Resources Policy, Elsevier, vol. 79(C).
    6. Abdul Rehman & Hengyun Ma & Rafael Alvarado & Fayyaz Ahmad, 2023. "The nexus of military, final consumption expenditures, total reserves, and economic development of Pakistan," Economic Change and Restructuring, Springer, vol. 56(3), pages 1753-1776, June.
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    8. Elwasila Saeed Elamin Mohamed, 2020. "Resource Rents, Human Development and Economic Growth in Sudan," Economies, MDPI, vol. 8(4), pages 1-21, November.

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    • H54 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - Infrastructures

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