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Decentralization and Intergovernmental Finance in Japan
Aoki, Ichiro - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008
to form a politically modern centralized country. Although Japan experienced a number of major decentralization processes …. While political trends in the 1990s favored government decentralization, promotion of decentralization became a challenge … for successive Cabinets. In 1999, the Diet enacted the Package Promoting Decentralization Act; this law repealed the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363837
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National Finance Commission Awards in Pakistan : A Historical Perspective
Ahmed, Iftikhar; Mustafa, Usman; Khalid, Mahmood - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2007
This study explores the evolution of fiscal resource distribution in Pakistan. Pakistan is a federation comprising four provinces, federallyadministered areas, and the Islamabad Capital Territory. Being a central type of government, most of the revenues are collected by the centre and then...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363881
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Lifestyle Choices and Societal Behavior Changes as Local Climate Strategy
Mohanty, Brahmanand; Scherfler, Martin; Devatha, Vikram - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2012
The Asia-Pacific region is witnessing rapid economic growth. Along with rising incomes, the lifestyles of the large middle class are moving quickly towards a buy-and-discard consumer model that involves carbon-intensive products and services. These increase dependency on the Earth’s...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011277996
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Lifestyle Choices and Societal Behavior Changes as Local Climate Strategy
Mohanty, Brahmanand; Scherfler, Martin; Devatha, Vikram - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2012
The Asia-Pacific region is witnessing rapid economic growth. Along with rising incomes, the lifestyles of the large middle class are moving quickly towards a buy-and-discard consumer model that involves carbon-intensive products and services. These increase dependency on the Earth’s...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011278240
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Reforming Indirect Taxes in India : Role of Environmental Taxes
Srivastava, D K; Rao, C Bhujanga - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2010
Extensive reforms of Indias indirect taxes at the central and the state levels has prepared the necessary ground for the implementation of a comprehensive goods and services tax (GST). The Empowered Committee of the State Finance Ministers in their First Discussion Paper and the Thirteenth...
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Delegation and Emission Tax in a Differentiated Oligopoly
Pal, Rupayan - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009
This paper examines how product differentiation as well as strategic managerial delegation affects optimal emission tax rate, environmental damage and social welfare, under alternative modes of product market competition. It shows that, under pure profit maximization, the (positive) optimal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365041
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Does partial privatization improve the environment?
Pal, Rupayan; Saha, Bibhas - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2010
This paper shows that, in case of differentiated products mixed duopoly, environmental damage increases (decreases) with the level of privatization, if the level of privatization is less (more) than certain level. It also shows that partial privatization is optimal from the social welfare point...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365368
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Economic Crisis, Institutional Changes and the Effectiveness of Government : the Case of Indonesia
Perdana, Ari; Friawan, Deni - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2007
stabilization and recovery, democratic transition and political reform, decentralization of political power, and the redefinition of … government in delivering economic recovery. This paper argues that democratic transition and decentralization affects economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363280
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Do barangays really matter in local services delivery? Some Issues and Policy Options
Layug, Allan S.; Pantig, Ida Marie T.; Bolong, Leilani E.; … - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2010
This paper, which is borne out of the need to address scarcity of evidence-based studies on barangay financing, analyzes and evaluates key issues on financing of devolved functions at the barangay level, with particular focus on fund utilization and program allocation, and proposes some policy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363285
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The State of Local Governance and Public Services in the Decentralized Indonesia in 2006 : Findings from the Governance and Decentralization Survey 2 (GDS2)
Widyanti, Wenefrida; Suryahadi, Asep - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008
The Governance and Decentralization Survey (GDS) aims to evaluate the implementation of local governance and … decentralization policy in Indonesia. The GDS was designed to initiate a database that will be used for the evaluation. Similar to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363302