Watson's run may yet have a double dividend as she prepares for next month's Olympics in Rio.
The policy was first billed as a "double dividend" which would help prepare children better for school and give their parents more opportunity to find part-time work.
This was in 1933 and her first job offered a double dividend: sound training in domestic science and confirmation of her love of performance.
Keenest of all, Denmark, Finland, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden now tax emissions of carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas.Moreover, green-tax revenues are being recycled in the hope of yielding the double dividend.
Higher tax revenues and lower pension spending would then bring a double dividend for the public finances.Raising the pensionable age would therefore let the government take Lord Turner's second step: making the state pension more generous.
In contrast, "buying local" would offer a "double dividend", says Bodo Ellmers, lead author of the report, funding development projects that also create jobs, stimulate industries, and provide income opportunities for local communities and firms.
Combining environmental with employment objectives, ecological tax reform (ETR) envisages a double dividend.
An appropriate design of the enforcement policy can thus have a "double dividend" by manipulating firms in both dimensions.
This paper aims at verifying the impact of an environmental fiscal reform able to attain both the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and the regional double dividend.
An integrated model is developed from research literatures on jurisdictional competition, the "double dividend," and on the design of tax-refund instruments.
By performing numerical simulations, we also demonstrate that the optimal mix of the emission tax and R&D subsidy can have "double dividend" benefits.
