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Costs of taxation and the benefits of public goods : the role of income effects
Martin, Will - 2005
"The fact that raising taxes can increase taxed labor supply through income effects is frequently used to justify much lower measures of the marginal welfare cost of taxes and greater public good provision than indicated by traditional, compensated analyses. The authors confirm that this...
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Symbolic public goods and the coordination of collective action : a comparison of local development in India and Indonesia
Rao, Vijayendra - 2005
. In this paper, building on work in social theory, the author argues that common property can also be social …
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Equitable provision of long-term public goods : the role of negotiation mandates
Hourcade, Jean Charles - 2003
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Geography of growth : spatial economics and competitiveness
Nallari, Raj - 2012
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Bank competition and financial stability
Berger, Allen N. - 2008
"Under the traditional "competition-fragility" view, more bank competition erodes market power, decreases profit … margins, and results in reduced franchise value that encourages bank risk taking. Under the alternative "competition … suggest that - consistent with the traditional "competition-fragility" view - banks with a greater degree of market power also …
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Removing Regulatory Barriers to Competition
World Bank - 2021
Competition can drive productivity growth in Kosovo, especially in the context of the post-Coronavirus disease 2019 … recover from economic shocks more quickly. Competition in product markets can also prop-up economic recovery in a more … inclusive way for the poorest households. Kosovo has made significant progress towards pro-competition regulation of product …
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How can donors help build global public goods in health ?
Das Gupta, Monica - 2009
"Aid to developing countries has largely neglected the population-wide health services that are core to communicable disease control in the developed world. These mostly non-clinical services generate "pure public goods" by reducing everyone's exposure to disease through measures such as...
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What are public services worth, and to whom? : non-parametric estimation of capitalization in Pune
Lall, Somik V. - 2006
"The availability and quality of basic public services are important determinants of urban quality of life. In many cities, rapid population growth and fiscal constraints are limiting the extent to which urban governments can keep up with increasing demand for these services. It therefore...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522137
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The use of willingness to pay experiments : estimating demand for piped water connections in Sri Lanka
Van Houtven, George (contributor) - 2006
"The authors show how willingness to pay surveys can be used to gauge household demand for improved network water and sanitation services. They do this by presenting a case-study from Sri Lanka, where they surveyed approximately 1,800 households in 2003. Using multivariate regression, they show...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522242
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Philippines : Study on Local Service Delivery
World Bank - 2013
This policy note analyzes the composition of public expenditures that support devolved services (including the resource allocation decisions that support these expenditures), an assessment of the quality of local service delivery based on available local data, and an evaluation of the...
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