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Does aid improve public service delivery?
Wolf, Susanna - 2007
The expected increase in aid to Africa will put a big challenge for public service delivery. Using a simultaneous …
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The financial requirements of achieving gender equality and woman's empowerment
Bahadur, Chandrika; Elson, Diane; Grown, Caren A.; … - 2006
Although the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have been ratified in global and national forums, they have not yet been incorporated into operational planning within governments or international organizations. The weak link between the policies and the investments needed for their...
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Study on quality of public finances in support of growth in the mediterranean partner countries of the EU
De Wulf, Luc; Coutinho, Leonor; Sassanpour, Cyrus; … - 2010
, income redistribution and resource allocation. Long-term growth was not usually viewed as an end itself, and fiscal policy …, when tax policy relies heavily on income taxation to do so, the analysis suggests a likely negative effect on growth …
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Union Budget 2021 of the People by the People, for the People
Pazhanisamy, R. - 2021
In spite of the pandemic pressure to limit the use of the resources both internally and outside the economies policymakers all over the globe, compete each other's to recover the economic growth with a v shape through various planned activities on mission mode. Social budgeting is found as one...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012418388
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Tax systems and tax harmonisation in the East African Community (EAC): Report for the EAC/GTZ program 'Support to the EAC integration process'
Petersen, Hans-Georg (contributor) - 2010
double taxation before the harmonisation process within the EU is described in detail. This process is not a best practice … discussed for value added taxation (VAT), excise taxation, and income taxation. The problems of tax administrations, procedures …, while regarding the latter the focus is on company taxation. For a better systematic analysis the national tax laws are …
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Redistribution and Education Subsidies are Siamese Twins
Bovenberg, A. Lans; Jacobs, Bas - 2005
We develop models of optimal linear and non-linear income taxation with endogenous human capital formation to explore …
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Deserving poor and the desirability of a minimum wage
Blumkin, Tomer; Danziger, Leif - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 7 (2018) 6, pp. 1-17
This paper provides a normative justification for the use of a minimum wage as a redistributive tool in a competitive labor market. We show that a government interested in improving the wellbeing of the deserving poor, while being less concerned with their undeserving counterparts, can use a...
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Human Capital Mobility: Implications for Efficiency, Income Distribution, and Policy
Wildasin, David - 2014
Mobility of highly-skilled workers affects and is affected by labor market conditions, taxes, and other policies. This paper documents the demographic and fiscal importance of international migration, especially in aging societies, reviews the efficiency and distributional effects of mobility,...
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Deserving Poor and the Desirability of a Minimum Wage
Blumkin, Tomer; Danziger, Leif - 2014
This paper provides a novel justification for using a minimum wage to supplement an optimal tax-and-transfer system. We demonstrate that if labor supply decisions are concentrated along the intensive margin and employment is efficiently rationed, a minimum wage can be socially beneficial by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010409382
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The climate change challenge and fiscal instruments and policies in the EU
Avgousti, Aris; Caprioli, Francesco; Caracciolo, Giacomo; … - 2023
Fiscal policy plays a prominent role in climate change mitigation and adaptation. An optimal combination of revenue policies, in particular taxes, and expenditure policies, such as subsidies and investment, is essential in order to achieve greenhouse gas emissions targets. This paper analyses...
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