Batley and Larbi examine how governments of developing countries are organized to deliver public services. The book is based on comparative international studies of four service sectors: Health care, urban water, business promotion and agricultural marketing. Governments everywhere are being...

The international financial crisis of 2007-08 and the ensuing scandals continue to raise important debates about the role of institutions in maintaining trust and fighting corruption, as well as in sustaining economic growth and political stability in a globalized world. This book proposes to...

This book critically analyses the role of the United Arab Emirates Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) in the Suspicious Activities Reports regime. The author pays particular attention to its functions and powers in dealing with Suspicious Activities Reports and relevant requirements imposed upon...

Bei der digitalen Betriebsprügung erhält der Betriebsprüfer vom Unternehmen oder dessen Steuerberater lediglich einen Datenträger, welcher die steuerrelevanten Daten beinhaltet. Das Werk- erläutert die rechtlichen Grundlagen der digitalen Betriebsprüfung,- unterstützt bei der Vorbereitung...

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...

This book analyzes issues related to economic challenges for Japan’s regional revitalization. Japan’s responses to such challenges and to the problem of an aging population are of deep interest to the nations outside of Japan. This book brings together 19 articles contributed by Japan’s...

How and Where Government Spends Money: Public Budgeting Reform and Citizen Participation -- Institutional Reform and Innovation in the Public Financing System -- ays to Promote Public Budgeting Reform -- A Constitutional Perspective on the Financial Transfer Payment System in China -- A...

Die Bundeswehr befindet sich seit 2011 in ihrer 'Neuausrichtung'. Dieser Band vereint politik-, wirtschafts- und verwaltungswissenschaftliche Expertise mit Fachbeiträgen von Autoren und Autorinnen, die eine Schlüsselfunktion bei der Entwicklung, Ausgestaltung und Implementierung neuer...