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The purpose of this paper is to estimate the impact of capitalising durable goods on the Euro area household saving ratios and disposable incomes for the first time. The reason for this exercise is twofold. Firstly, it is generally accepted that individual households regard consumer durables as...
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This paper characterizes efficient tax subsidies for charitable contributions, and considers the properties of potential reforms. Contributions are underprovided in the absence of subsidies, and are misdirected if subsidies fail to account for all of the costs that donors incur. It is costly for...
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Singapore Financial Centre. The revelatory case of the underresearched Singapore cluster reveals (a) how clustering conditions …
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Singapore is the most industrialized and urbanized country in Southeast Asia and is totally dependent on oil and … maintaining Singapore's competitiveness, improving energy security, and enhancing environmental sustainability. In this paper, we … discuss where Singapore stands with regard to its energy consumption and CO2 emissions, its energy policies to date, and those …
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to the internationalization stage of fulfilling Singapore's aspiration to be a global education hub. The state plays an …
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influencing directly or indirectly state performance in Southeast Asia with special emphasis on Myanmar, Vietnam and Singapore …
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and Singapore, while Hong Kong and Thailand achieve more equalized outcomes. There is no evidence that smaller classes …
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We compare changes in schooling output and in schooling input of six East Asian countries to derive a measure of productivity change. Our results question the impression that all is well with education in East Asia. First, we find that the cognitive achievement of pupils did not change...
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