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Government to examine the contribution that national reform of building regulation has made and further reform could make to the … in reform of building regulation and to negotiate a new Intergovernmental Agreement. The agreement would clarify the … objectives of building regulation reform; strengthen the commitment to national consistency; and also affirm the importance of a …
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The LoopCo Plan, which uses market mechanisms to promote competition, is the best approach to restructuring the telecommunications market, say its proponents, who object to the requirements and to-date implementation of the Telecommunications Act of l996. The local-loop's spin-off 's consumer...
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The paper examines the economic and regulatory factors that led to an explosion in the wholesale power prices, supply shortages, and utility insolvencies in California’s electricity sector. A necessary first step in determining the lessons learned from the California electricity crisis is a...
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The paper examines the economic and regulatory factors that led to an explosion in the wholesale power prices, supply shortages, and utility insolvencies in California’s electricity sector. A necessary first step in determining the lessons learned from the California electricity crisis is a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005134444
-level regulation will likely make any type of collusion or capture more difficult in the future. …
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The Commission was asked to evaluate current assistance arrangements to the TCF industries and provide policy options for post 2005 assistance and to report on a range of related matters that will affect the sector's long-term viability. The inquiry will also look at relevant workplace issues...
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Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage: Key Indicators 2003 highlights the marked disparities between Indigenous and other Australians. While not the first report to assemble data on the social or economic status of Indigenous people, it is distinguished by the strategic framework within which the...
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recent reforms to increase employment incentives. Our main conclusions are that while Member States have started to ease the … tax burden on labour, progress on reforms has been unequal between tax and benefit systems: the emphasis has clearly been … on the tax side while benefit reforms have mostly been relatively minor, and without adequate attention to the …
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In this paper we empirically analyse the linkages among growth, investment and reforms in the South East Asian … production , and also in terms of economic reforms , physical infrastructure, and human capital. Our empirical analysis has … clearly revealed the importance and the complementarities between macroeconomic reforms, physical infrastructure, human …
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community of NCP and related reforms and for areas which offer opportunities for significant gains. The Commission found that … to country as well as city Australia. The Commission outlines how Australia’s ageing population and other international … wide-ranging agenda for nationally coordinated reform, particularly in the areas of energy and water, freight transport …
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