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Phenomenology of financial vulnerability in French municipalities of 2,000 to 10,000 inhabitants

Tairou, Akim A. - EconWPA - 1997

Municipalities financial distress (which we refer as financial vulnerability) is a recurrent concern of French … some possible definitions and display the real importance of this phenomenon in French municipalities of 2,000 to 10 … ratio, and net cash flow, provides an interesting solution to identify vulnerable municipalities. They also show that …

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Japanese Public Support For Official Development Assistance

Gagen, M. J. - EconWPA - 2003

Public opinion surveys conducted since 1977 in Japan are usually interpreted as showing decreasing support among the Japanese population for Official Development Assistance (ODA), and possibly, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Cabinet Office of Japan have justified recent cuts in ODA...

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The Labor Market Effects of Welfare Reform

Lubotsky, Darren H. - EconWPA - 1999

The recent reform of the federal welfare system is meant to encourage recipients to leave welfare and enter the workforce. If the reform is successful there are likely to be effects felt throughout the low-- skilled end of the labor market. As former welfare recipients enter the labor market,...

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Human Development and Electoral Systems

Gassner, Marjorie; Ontiveros, Darwin Ugarte; Verardi, … - EconWPA - 2005

The aim of this paper is to test if electoral systems and human development are linked. Using high quality data and very simple panel data econometric techniques, we show that electoral systems play a critical role in explaining the difference in the levels of human development between...

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Using Administrative Data to Examine the Efficacy of Welfare-to-Work Programs

Mueser, Peter; Ryan, Sharon; Thielbar, Melinda - EconWPA - 1999

This paper investigates the feasibility of measuring the efficacy of programs designed to move welfare recipients into jobs using administrative records on individual program participation linked with state records on individual earnings. Like many states, Missouri collects quarterly earnings...

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Some Fundamental Inadequacies of the Washington Consensus: Misunderstanding the Poor by the Brightest

Woo, Wing - EconWPA - 2004

The Washington Consensus suffers from fundamental inadequacies, and that a more comprehensive framework of the economic process is needed to guide the formulation of country-specific development strategies. The following five propositions summarise the set of interrelated arguments made in this...

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You Get What You Vote For: Electoral Determinants of Economic Freedom

Crampton, Eric - EconWPA - 2002

While several cross-sectional studies (La Porta et. al. 2002, Norton 2002) examine institutional and cultural determinants of economic freedom, changes in economic freedom remain unexamined. I construct a measure of median voter preferences and find changes in voter preferences for economic...

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A PUSH TO GEORGE ( IN ) BUSH

DR.VSR.SUBRAMANIAM - EconWPA - 2005

An imperative need has arisen to provide a Constructive push to the President Bush. American population, Corporate units, Expatriates and all nations with their currency related to US $, are not happy in the current $ dipping situation. Even the currencies of poor nations are galloping upward in...

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Bureaucratic Corruption and Mass Media

Suphachalasai, Suphachol - EconWPA - 2005

This paper investigates the relationship between a bureaucracy and mass media industry, and its implications to corruption. We develop a bureaucratic model of corruption with mass media. A representative profit maximizing media firm seeks for corruption news to be printed and sold. Channels...

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Explaining de facto judicial independence

Hayo, Bernd; Voigt, Stefan - EconWPA - 2003

Judicial Independence (JI) as factually implemented varies considerably between countries. Since de iure JI is an imperfect predictor of de facto JI, a number of variables that might determine the factual level of judicial independence is theoretically discussed and empirically tested. A...

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