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Integrating Economic and Social Policy: Good practices from high achieving countries
Mehrotra, Santosh - 2000
This paper examines the successes of ten 'high-achievers' - countries with social indicators far higher than might be expected given their national wealth. Their progress in such fields as education and health offers lessons for social policy elsewhere in the developing world. Based on...
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Should subsidies to urban passenger transport be increased? A spatial CGE analysis for a German metropolitan area
Tscharaktschiew, Stefan; Hirte, Georg - Fakultät Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Technische … - 2011
predominantly automobile. In contrast, pure commuting subsidies hardly affect aggregate urban welfare, but distributional effects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009226164
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Passengers as Drivers of Innovation in Public Transport Planning? Conceptual Issue and Experiences
Schiefelbusch, Martin - Società Italiana di Economia dei Trasporti e della … - 2010
According to economic theory, market forces guarantee efficiency and customer orientation. But in public transport, such a market often does not exist, given that most services are provided under licenses which guarantee the operator an exclusive right to provide the service, thus evidently...
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The determinants of urban public transport: an international comparison and econometric analysis
Joly, Iragaël; Masson, Sophie; Petiot, Romain - HAL - 2004
The analysis presented in this paper is based on the database created by the UITP (International Association of Public Transport), "The Millennium Cities Database", which covers the public transport systems in 100 of the world's cities. It contains data on demography, urban structure, transport...
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The uneasy case for lower Parking Standards
Cutter, W. Bowman; Franco, Sofia F. - Faculdade de Economia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa - 2012
Minimum parking requirements are the norm for urban and suburban development in the United States (Davidson and Dolnick … (2002)). The justification for parking space requirements is that overflow parking will occupy nearby street or off …-street parking. Shoup (1999) and Willson (1995) provides cases where there is reason to believe that parking space requirements have …
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Regulating on-street parking
Calthrop, Edward; Proost, Stef - Centrum voor Economische Studiën, Faculteit Economie … - 2004
study optimal government regulation of the on-street parking market. It is shown that the optimal on-street fee equals the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005503911
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Regulating on-street parking
Calthrop, Edward; Proost, Stef - Centrum voor Economische Studiën, Faculteit Economie … - 2002
cities, is to follow the signposts to an off-street parking facility, which is often privately operated. Another option is to … formalise such a setting and examine optimal on-street parking policy in the presence of an off-street market. Not surprisingly … on-street price equal to the resource cost of off-street parking supply. Other pricing rules result in either excessive …
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FDI-facilitated Development: The Case of the Natural Gas Industry of Trinidad and Tobago
Barclay, Lou Anne A. - United Nations University, Institute for New Technologies - 2003
Since the last decade, governments in less-developed countries have increasingly viewed Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), as directed by the multinational enterprise (MNE), as a catalyst for economic growth and transformation. Indeed, the literature argues that FDI-assisted development occurs...
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Productive Development Policies in Trinidad and Tobago: A Critical Review
Moya, Ramiro; Mohammed, Anne-Marie; Sookram, Sandra - Inter-American Development Bank - 2010
Even as Trinidad and Tobago seeks productive diversification away from the energy sector, the process underlying the country’s productive development policies (PDP) is in a state of transition from state-directed industrial policy to a newer approach with extensive private-public...
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Food Prices and Food Security in Trinidad and Tobago
Løvendal, Christian Romer; Jakobsen, Kristian Thor - Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), United Nations - 2007
The economy of Trinidad and Tobago is booming, in particular as a consequence of increased energy production and the historical high oil prices. Whilst general inflation has remained relatively low for much of the present economic boom, substantial increases in retail food prices have been...
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