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This paper provides a general overview of the allocation of revenues and expenditures across levels of governments in … decentralization of the Canadian federation, reflected through the rising importance of provincial revenues and expenditures in the … expenditures by levels of government, as well as intergovernmental transfers in the post-war period. In the third section, the …
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In the backdrop of the low level of health insurance coverage in India, this study examines the determinants of the … scaling-up process of health insurance by analyzing the rational behaviour of an insurance agent facing a trade-off between … selling health insurance and other forms of insurance subject to his limited time and efforts, and the implications of such …
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The 1990s saw an era of fiscal consolidation in industrialised countries, which struggled with fiscal deficits throughout the 1970s and 1980s. Reforms in public expenditure management, typically the introduction of fiscal rules and targets, together with favourable economic growth contributed to...
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Japan has reached the limits of conventional macroeconomic policy. In order to overcome deflation and achieve sustainable economic growth, the Bank of Japan (BOJ) recently set an inflation target of 2% and implemented an aggressive monetary policy so this target could be achieved as soon as...
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“Abenomics†refers to the economic policies advocated by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe who became prime minister of Japan for a second time when his party, the Liberal Democratic Party, won an overwhelming majority at the general election in December 2012. Abenomics has “three...
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Japan has reached the limits of conventional macroeconomic policy. In order to overcome deflation and achieve sustainable economic growth, the Bank of Japan (BOJ) recently set an inflation target of 2% and implemented an aggressive monetary policy so this target could be achieved as soon as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011134385
“Abenomics†refers to the economic policies advocated by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe who became prime minister of Japan for a second time when his party, the Liberal Democratic Party, won an overwhelming majority at the general election in December 2012. Abenomics has “three...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011134392
Multiple Pareto-rankable equilibria may obtain in an overlapping generations model where consumers save to reach a fixed target. Existence and uniqueness conditions are discussed. The model displays excess consumption sensitivity to current income and perfect old-age insurance.
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Korea (hereafter, Korea). The paper specifically examines motion pictures and broadcasting, and discusses what drives or …
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sources of institutional trajectories of economic development in China, Japan, and Korea. It stylizes the Malthusian-phase of … states of Qing China, Tokugawa Japan, and Yi Korea by focusing on the way in which agricultural taxes were enforced. It also …
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