Individual elements in Belgian tax system affect the growth process through different channels and to a varying degree. Consumption taxes are among the least distortive for growth, and there is considerable scope to increase the reliance on this tax source in Belgium. The Belgian differential...

This book investigates various kinds of climate change mitigation behaviour, which range from a general support of environmental policy to concrete energy-saving activities, in selected countries. Drawing on extensive national and international survey data, the analysis has the following main...

Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Impact of 2008 Global Financial Crisis -- Chapter 3 National Intellectual Capital Development of the Four Small European Countries -- Chapter 4 The Aftermath of 2008 Global Financial Crisis -- Chapter 5 Future Perspective and Policy Implications.

and Summary -- I. A re-examination of the state of growth and stabilization theories -- 1. Second Thoughts on Growth Theory -- 2. The State of Macroeconomics -- 3. The Rich Country-Poor Country Problem: From the Eighteenth to the Twenty-First Centuries -- II. Innovations in financial markets and...