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Should Public Capital Be Subsidized or Provided?

Devarajan, Shantayanan; Xie, Danyang; Zou, Heng-Fu - EconWPA - 2002

In an endogenous-growth model, we consider alternative ways of providing public capital using distortionary taxes. We show that if the government provides the good, the resulting growth rate and welfare may or may not be higher than under laissez-faire. By contrast, if the government subsidizes...

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Nursing home subsidies

Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2001

On 13 July 1998 the Treasurer referred the current and alternative funding methodologies for nursing home subsidy rates …, announced in the August 1996 Budget, included a process of ‘coalescence’, under which the different nursing home subsidy rates … Commission into differential subsidy rates. …

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SUBSIDY AND UNEMPLOYMENT IN A MOBILE CAPITAL MODEL

Bandopadhyay, Titas Kumar - EconWPA - 2005

efficiency- wage relation in the low wage sector. The general equilibrium effects of subsidy policies on urban unemployment and … domestic factor income are examined.The main findings in this paper shows that urban subsidy policy softens the problem of … urban unemployment ,while the rural subsidy policy aggravates this, if informal sector is linked to the international market …

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International pharmaceutical price differences

Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2001

The study compares manufacturer prices in Australia and seven other countries for 150 pharmaceuticals listed on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS), as at 30 June 2000. The comprehensive study found that prices in the USA are between 80 to 160 per cent higher than in Australia, and prices...

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Bank loans, start-up subsidies and the survival of the new firms: an econometric analysis at the entrepreneur level

Bruno, CREPON; Emmanuel, DUGUET - EconWPA - 2004

We evaluate the impact of bank loans and start-up subsidies on the survival of the new firms. This work relies on the SINE94 survey that provides rich information on the entrepreneurs and their start-up projects. We use the propensity score matching methodology, in the case of multiple...

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INEQUALITY AND OIL SUBSIDY IN INDONESIA

Situngkir, Hokky - EconWPA - 2004

oil subsidy domestically. The problem that faced by the government is that the compensation fund will hardly enjoyed by …

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Greenhouse gas emissions and the productivity growth of electricity generators

Murtough, Greg; Appels, David; Matysek, Anna; Lovell, … - EconWPA - 2002

This paper analyses electricity generation in four Australian states and the Northern Territory in the late 1990s It finds that productivity growth estimates for electricity generators can change significantly when allowance is made for greenhouse gas emissions. Using an innovative analytical...

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Birth Spacing and Child Survival: Comparative Evidence from India and Pakistan

Maitra, Pushkar; Pal, Sarmistha - EconWPA - 2004

This paper examines the two-way relationship between birth interval and child survival and compares the behaviour of households in the Indian and Pakistani provinces of Punjab. Birth interval and child survival are modelled here as correlated hazard processes, allowing for mother- specific...

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After the "License Raj": Economic Liberalization and Aggregate Private Investment in India

Emran, M. Shahe; Alam, M. Imam; Shilpi, Forhad - EconWPA - 2003

theoretically consistent manner, this paper presents evidence on the effects of economic liberalization of 1991 in India. Two robust …

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Labor Conflict and Foreign Investments: An Analysis of FDI in India

Menon, Nidhiya; Sanyal, Paroma - EconWPA - 2005

This paper analyzes patterns of foreign direct investment in India. We investigate how labor conflict, credit … decisions and labor unrest simultaneously. Results indicate that labor unrest is endogenous across the states of India, and has …

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