The progressiveness of taxation, widely debated by economists, academics, politicians, as well as all other taxpayers, in general, is today a problem whose solutions have not been found, as there is no unity of views on a number issues such as: choosing the most suitable criterion for...

In Maasai culture, responsibilities and labour are divided between the genders. Men are in charge of the herd and thus control the main income source. Women take care of the family and are responsible for milking. Milk sales provide the women’s main income source. In this paper, using...

This article analyzes the demand for ethanol in Brazil, from 2001 to 2009, taking into account regional differences in regard of relative price and per capita income. These elements explain significant variability of demand elasticities across regions, a result not yet addressed by the related...

The study investigates whether the trend of declining targeted depreciation and diminution in the interest rates and inflation will continue in 2003, given the fact that the relatively high surplus on the forex market led in 2001 and 2002 towards real appreciation of ROL against the EUR-USD...

The focus of this paper is twofold. First, it examines the impact on work effort of changes in government purchases financed with lump-sum taxes, in a neoclassical framework, with respect to four industrialised countries. Second, it reconsiders the expenditure-work effort relationship in a...