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Green and Brown? Globalization and the Environment
Boyce, James K. - Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts-Amherst - 2004
Globalization - viewed as a process of economic integration that embraces governance as well as markets - could lead to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005130381
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Reforming the Russian Budget System; A Move to More Devolved Budget Management?
Diamond, Jack - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2005
The Russian federal government has recently initiated a fundamental reform of its budget system, encompassing important policy, procedural, and institutional changes. This paper reviews this reform agenda with reference to the experience of industrial countries that over the past two to three...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005768760
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Are Laws Needed for Public Management Reforms; An International Comparison?
Lienert, Ian - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2005
There has been widespread adoption of new laws to support new public management. In many countries that have implemented comprehensive and deep reforms, new or amended laws have fundamentally changed the role of the state and the budget processes supporting it. Paradoxically, far-reaching...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005769157
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Aid Scaling Up; Do Wage Bill Ceilings Stand in the Way?
Fedelino, Annalisa; Schwartz, Gerd; Verhoeven, Marijn - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006
This paper assesses whether the scaling up of aid and the resulting increase in government spending that is needed to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) would be hampered by wage bill ceilings that are often part of government programs supported by the IMF's Poverty Reduction and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005604920
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Is fiscal decentralization harmful for economic growth? Evidence from the OECD countries
Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés; Ezcurra, Roberto - Instituto de Ciencias Sociales, Instituto Madrileño de … - 2010
The global drive towards decentralization has been increasingly justified on the basis that greater transfers of resources to subnational governments are expected to deliver greater efficiency in the provision of public goods and services and greater economic growth. This paper examines whether...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008587795
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Tax Devolution and Grant Distribution to States in India Analysis and Roadmap for Alternatives
Mohan, R; D, Shyjan - eSocialSciences - 2010
The paper attempts to analyse the impact of devolution of taxes and distribution grants by the Centre to the States in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008522007
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Determinants of Exchange-Rate Volatility: The Case of the New EU Members
Stanèík, Juraj - In: Czech Journal of Economics and Finance (Finance a uver) 57 (2007) 9-10, pp. 414-432
“news” factor, and the exchange-rate regime. A TARCH (threshold autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity) model is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005673572
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The Interplay between Multilateral Regimes as the Relationship between Trade and Environmental Rules
Krč, Jakub - In: Acta Oeconomica Pragensia 2008 (2008) 2, pp. 58-69
The existence of world trade regime under the WTO and the environmental regime under the UNFCCC and Kyoto Protocol can …, the Dispute Settlement Mechanism of the WTO is probably to be applied. The regime interplay theory offers suitable tools … for analyses of potential areas of conflict and can lead to an adoption of an appropriate regime management that would …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005036396
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Determinants of Firm-level Export Performance: A Case Study of Indian Textile Garments and Apparel Industry
Bhavani, T.A.; Tendulkar, Suresh D. - eSocialSciences - 2010
A major reform process in the Indian economic policy regime away from a four- decade-long inward orientation has been … under way since July 1991 in response to a serious macro-economic crisis. The new policy regime aims at liberalising …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008671975
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STRUCTURE, AGENCY AND CHANGE IN THE CAR REGIME. A REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE
Marletto, Gerardo - Centro di Ricerca sull'Economia delle Istituzioni … - 2010
This paper is aimed at filling the gap between the already well structured literature on the 'car regime' and the … of the car regime: ? the car regime was established thanks to the ability of purposeful private actors to use the …-dependence phenomena lock the society into the car regime. For the future, the dominant scenario appears to be the internal transformation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008830126