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State Finances: A Study of Budgets of 2011-12
RBI, Reserve Bank of India - eSocialSciences - 2012
The budgetary data for 2011-12 indicates the commitment of States to carry forward fiscal correction, as evident from the emergence of revenue surplus after a gap of two years and consequent reduction in fiscal deficit-GDP ratio. Notwithstanding the improvement in the revenue account, the...
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Citizens, Legislators, and Executive Disclosure: The Political Determinants of Fiscal Transparency
Wehner, Joachim; Renzio, Paulo de - eSocialSciences - 2012
Empirical evidence on the beneficial effects of fiscal transparency ranges from improved budgetary outcomes, to lower sovereign borrowing costs and decreased corruption. Despite this, hardly any effort has been invested in exploring the determinants of fiscal transparency. Using a new 85-country...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009492738
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Open Budgets. Transform Lives: The Open Budget Survey 2010
eSocialSciences; International Budget Partnership IBP - 2011
Budget transparency has become central to a number of international development discourses, ranging from the financing of climate change mitigation, to country- level actions to meet international development commitments like the Millennium Development Goals, to accounting for the revenues from...
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Article 2 and Government Budgets
eSocialSciences; International Budget Partnership IBP - 2014
Governments’ budgets are fundamentally about people’s human rights. Budgets are the central means by which …, and spend their budgets so as to best realize people’s human rights. It is, primarily, a resource for civil society …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011133154
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OTC Derivatives Market in India: Recent Regulatory Initiatives and Open Issues for Market Stability and Development
Arora, Dayanand; Rathinam, Francis Xavier - eSocialSciences - 2010
The paper seeks to prove the point that the Indian OTC derivatives markets, unlike many other jurisdictions, are well regulated. Only contracts where one party to the contract is an RBI regulated entity are considered legally valid in India. A good reporting system and a post-trade clearing and...
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Re-Activating Primary Health Centres Through Industrial Partnership in Tamilnadu Is it a Sustainable Model of Partnership?
D, Varatharajan; D, Wilson Arul Anandan - eSocialSciences - 2009
Kerala’s success in human development demonstrated that efficient functioning of government health care delivery system opens the doors of prosperity for the poor and vulnerable sections of the population.1-4 Better accessibility, appropriateness, effectiveness and efficiency of public...
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The International Mobility of Technical Talent: Trends and Development Implications
D'Costa, Anthony P. - eSocialSciences - 2006
This paper charts the complex dynamics of the movement of technical talent in the world economy and assesses broadly the impact of such mobility on both sending and receiving countries. Based on secondary data and primary information from the Indian and Japanese IT industry, the study presents a...
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Fuel Price Hike and Indonesia’s Energy Insecurity
Sembiring, Margareth; Kenawas, Yoes C. - eSocialSciences - 2013
Fuel price hikes have always been unpopular in Indonesia, largely because of their wide-ranging impact on the population. Yet, it is undeniable that the current high subsidies are unsustainable. To move forward on this issue then, the government would need to focus on comprehensive measures that...
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Book Review: War, Culture and Media
Virchow, Fabian - eSocialSciences - 2008
Thomas Conroy, Jarice Hanson, eds. Constructing America's War Culture: Iraq, Media, and Images at Home. Lanham …
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Civil War: A Review of Fifty Years of Research
Blattman, Christopher; Miguel, Edward - eSocialSciences - 2009
A review of several decades of scholarship on civil war, focusing on the answers to key questions: Why do wars begin …? Who fights? How are armed groups organized? How can we end and prevent internal war? A survey of the growing body of … macroeconomic and microeconomic evidence to assess the impacts of civil war on economic growth worldwide is given. This paper seeks …
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