This book provides a thorough review of early English land taxes of the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. It is a polemical work which is critical of the institutional English state narratives including Brewer’s ‘Sinews of Power’ and North and Weingast’s ‘credible...

1. Tax System and Tax Reforms in Turkey -- 2. Restructuring of Revenue Administration in Turkey -- 3. Tax Audit Reforms in Turkey -- 4. The Experience of Medium Term Expenditure Framework in Turkey -- 5. An Assessment of How the Public Procurement System Works in Turkey -- 6. Public-Private...

1. Introduction -- 2. Local Tax Administration -- 3. The Practice of Real Property Taxation in the World -- 4. Municipal Budgeting and Accounting -- 5. Local Fiscal Discipline -- 6. Local Public Infrastructure and Corruption -- 7. Measuring and Monitoring Local Government Performance -- 8....

Introduction to Taxation -- Part I: Selected History of Indian Taxation: Taxation in Ancient India -- Taxation Under the Mughals.-Taxation in Early British Period.-Taxation in Pre-independence Period—The Salt Tax -- Part II: Theory of Taxation: Principles of Taxation -- Market Behaviour of...

1 Issues and New Business Trends in the International Trade of Secondhand Goods -- 2 Economic Impact of Imported Secondhand Agricultural Machinery in Rural Vietnam -- 3 International Trade of Used Trains: The Case of Japanese Used Rolling Stock in Indonesia -- 4 The Location Problem of...

National economies are linked through flows of capital and goods. This book addresses those linkages, analyzes their benefits for economic development, and evaluates a country’s opportunities to reap the best possible rewards by influencing the linkages. The book focuses on the role of product...

The end of the EURO -- The effects of alternative currencies to national economies: the European experience -- The role of FDI in increasing employment for South-Eastern Europe countries -- Trends in the Balkans and Eurasia under globalization – geostrategic analysis -- The impact of...

Focusing on global value chains and their importance to trade, this edited collection explores the strategic role of logistics and supply chain infrastructure in the development of Africa. Skilled authors present critical analysis of the current state of logistics in Africa, and suggest...

This is the first English book on the economic relations between China and Latin America written by Chinese scholars. The authors are all from the Institute of Latin American Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences - China’s premier think tank. By combining empirical techniques and...

This volume undertakes the important task of envisioning a regional history of Asia based on its unique internal characteristics, going beyond the usual West/non-West dichotomy. The “regional trade zone of modern Asia” was debated in the 1980s. Since then, Japanese historians of the...