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Social safety nets protect citizens against hardship. By offering compensation, social safety nets may help overcome the political resistance to trade liberalisation and structural reform, but they can also weaken the incentives to work and save. Depending on their design, safety nets may also...
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capacity of produced, natural and human capital to support a stream of consumption into the future.<BR>Le revenu étant défini …
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carry out a study on the feasibility of compiling measures of the distribution of income, consumption and wealth across … this paper. They show disparities in household income and consumption, including Social Transfers in Kind, and in household …
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Much valuable information exists already on household economic resources (i.e. income, consumption and wealth). Indeed … distribution of income, consumption and wealth across household groups that are consistent with national accounts definitions and … components of adjusted disposable income, 21 all (or part) of the components of actual final consumption and 7 studied all (or …
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In accordance with decisions made by the FDI, the OECD has initiated surveys on fiscal decentralisation for the purpose of providing international comparisons on the design of fiscal systems across levels of government. The FDI is a joint initiative of the OECD, the World Bank, USAID, the...
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Major budgeting reforms have been initiated in a number of OECD countries in recent years. These reforms focus on giving spending agencies greater flexibility in using resources, in exchange for holding them responsible for achieving results. This publication examines how five Member countries...
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This paper considers the case for adjusting measures of the cyclically-adjusted fiscal balance for exceptional movements in the terms of trade for those countries where production of commodities is a substantial share of output. For such countries exceptional movements in commodity prices, such...
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The purpose of this volume is to provide a reference book and a training manual for public administrators in the transitional economies, and in particular for officials with budgeting and policy-making responsibilities. The book is a follow-up to the Multicountry Seminar in Ljubljana (1-2 April...
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In accordance with decisions made by the FDI, the OECD has initiated surveys on fiscal decentralisation for the purpose of providing international comparisons on the design of fiscal systems across levels of government. The FDI is a joint initiative of the OECD, the World Bank, USAID, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012447011