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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 In 1999, the Diet enacted the Package Promoting Decentralization Act; this law repealed the …
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363881
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Sustainable Development Framework for Local Governance
Cabalfin, Michael R.; Yap, Josef T. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008
Over the past sixty years, the concept of development has expanded from economic growth and investment, to poverty reduction, human development, sustainable development, and more recently to institutional development. There has also been a fresh look at industrial policy and the role of the...
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Growth Diagnostics in Pakistan
Qayyum, Abdul; Khawaja, Idrees; Hyder, Asma - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008
Following the Hausmann, et al. (2005) methodology, we attempt to identify the constraints to growth in Pakistan. We … institutions restrict hiring/firing, State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has not done its duty to contain the rising interest spread, and … constraints to growth in Pakistan. These are : (i) poor state of governance, (ii) poor state of institutions, and (iii) lack of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363661
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Is Economic Growth Sustainable? Environmental Quality Of Indian States Post 1991
Mukherjee, Sacchidananda; Kathuria, Vinish - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006
This study is an attempt to investigate the relationship between environmental quality and per capita NSDP (i.e., Environment Kuznets Curve, EKC) of 14 major Indian States in the light of their very high economic growth in the post-liberalisation period. The analysis involves first ranking the...
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When will New Zealand catch up with Australia?
Le, Trinh - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008
New Zealands average income, defined as GDP per capita, is now three quarters that of Australia and even lower than in Australias poorest state, Tasmania. Over the last seven years, New Zealand has grown slightly faster than Australia, but at these rates, it would still take 140 years to close...
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Trade Liberalisation, Financial Development and Economic Growth
Khan, Muhammad Arshad; Qayyum, Abdul - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2007
This paper empirically investigates the impact of trade and financial liberalisation on economic growth in Pakistan … role in enhancing economic growth in Pakistan in the long-run. However, the short-run responses of the real deposit rate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365136
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Fiscal Federalism and Public Service Provision in Canada
Tremblay, Jean-FranÃffois - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2007
decentralization of the Canadian federation, reflected through the rising importance of provincial revenues and expenditures in the …
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Fiscal Health of Selected Indian Cities
Bandyopadhyay, Simanti; Rao, M. Govinda - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009
The paper aims to assess the fiscal health of five urban agglomerations (UAs) in India viz. Delhi, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Chennai, and Pune. Our sample consists of five corporations and sixty three smaller Urban Local Bodies (ULBs) dispersed in thirteen districts of five major states. The main...
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Ecology, Environment and Sustainable Development in Indian Fiscal Federalism
Sankar, U. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009
This paper argues that the incorporation of new references in the Thirteenth Finance Commission mandate relating to ecology, environment and climate change and quality of public expenditure pose new challenges. The challenges arise because the operationalization of these items require various...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365298