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Jurnal Ekonomi Malaysia

25 (June) 1992 47 – 61

Income Redistribution Through Commodity Programmes and the Marginal Welfare Cost of Taxation

labatan Ekonomi
Fakulti Ekonomi & Pengurusan
Universiti Pertanian Malaysia
43400 UPM Serdang, Selangor D.E.


Abstract

Most economic welfare analysis 0f farm programmes are usually computed based on the assumption that the social opportunity cost of a dollar of public spending is equivalent to a dollar of private income. The approach simplifies the analysis but ignores the welfare cost of distortion caused by collection of taxes to finance public expenditure. This study shows that when the marginal opportunity cost of a dollar of goverment spending is greater than one dollar then the net social cost of farm programmes involving public expenditure is greater than typically estimaled. Four policy options were considered in this paper and we showed that output subsidy is less pareto superior than tariff as commonly thought. Further, our analysis shows the pareto superior program is the one that combines production control couple with target prices and output subsidy.

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baharumshah, (1992). Income Redistribution Through Commodity Programmes and the Marginal Welfare Cost of Taxation. Jurnal Ekonomi Malaysia, 25(June), 47–61.

@article{Baharumshah1992income,
  title={Income Redistribution Through Commodity Programmes and the Marginal Welfare Cost of Taxation},
  author={baharumshah, ahmad},
  journal={Jurnal Ekonomi Malaysia},
  volume={25},
  number={June},
  pages={47—61},
 

year={1992},
}

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