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Gender differences in Uganda: the case for access to education and health services
Seewanyana, Sarah; Kasirye, Ibrahim - Economic Policy Research Centre (EPRC) - 2010
Statistics (UBoS), the paper examines gender biases in school attainment, returns to education, expenditure on health and … education, access to health services. While Uganda has recorded progress on MDG 3: promote gender equality and empower women … free education both at primary and secondary level; and abolition of user fees in public health facilities is not …
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Does an Elected Leader Have Incentives to Provide Public Goods with Future Returns? –Evidence from China
Shu, Youhua; Chowdhury, Shyamal K.; Harris, Michael - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2012
the provision level of public health (LAPGs), but had no effects on irrigation facilities and paved roads (PRPGs). …
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New policies create a new politics: issues of institutional design in climate change policy
Ergas, Henry - In: Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 54 (2010) 2
Institutional design focuses on the task of providing accountability and effective monitoring of decision-making by bodies vested with the coercive powers of the state in a context where information is inherently limited, costly to acquire and asymmetrically distributed. This paper focuses on...
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Vanishing Borders of Urban Local Finance : Global Developments with Illustrations from Indian Federation
Nath, Shyam; Madhoo, Yeti Nisha - 2022
Chapter 1: Background and Emerging Challenges -- Chapter 2: Theory of Fiscal Federalism and Local Fiscal Domain -- Chapter 3: Fiscal Decentralization and Local Area Corporate Social Responsibility -- Chapter 4: Globalization, Climate Change and Changing Face of Urban Public Finance -- Chapter 5:...
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It's fundamental: welfare theorems, market failures, and the turn from "public finance" to "public economics"
Medema, Steven G. - 2022 - Version 1.3
In a paper delivered at the December 1955 meeting of the Econometric Society, Paul Samuelson noted that though economists had done "work of high quality and great quantity in the field of taxation," the theory of public expenditure had been "relatively neglected" (1958, 332). Anglo-American...
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A Case Study of an NGOs Ecotourism Efforts: Findings Based on a Survey of Visitors to its Tropical Nature Reserve
Tisdell, Clement A. - School of Economics, University of Queensland - 2010
This article outlines the efforts of a small NGO, the Mareeba Wetland Foundation, to conserve nature and conduct tourism at its Mareeba Tropical Savanna Wetland Reserve in northern Queensland. It provides background about the establishment of the reserve and its nature and draws on the results...
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Animal Health Economics. What Can It Do? What Are the Big Questions?
Tisdell, Clement A. - School of Economics, University of Queensland - 2010
It is argued that while considerable development of animal health economics has occurred in recent decades, it has not … widening the type of objectives taken into account in the analysis. Furthermore, the main focus of animal health economics has … environment, nutrition and the comfort of animals in their health ought to be given greater attention. In the case of zoonoses …
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Globalization, Social Welfare and Labor Market Inequalities
Tisdell, Clement A.; Svizzero, Serge - School of Economics, University of Queensland - 2003
Income inequality has increased sharply in higher income countries. Theories attributing this to bifurcation of labor markets are examined. Some theorists attribute this bifurcation primarily to technical change with influence from globalization. Others take an opposite viewpoint. A contrasting...
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A Quantitative Approach to Measure Tax Competitiveness Between EU Countries
Liapis, Konstantinos J.; Galanos, Christos L.; Politis, … - In: International Journal of Economic Sciences and Applied … 7 (2014) 3, pp. 7-23
The basic purpose of the study is to find a metric-variable of competitiveness for each country's tax regime and to assess the impact of tax regime differentiation across the common market. A country adopting competitive taxation policies manages to attract productive factors, funds and...
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China in der Geschichte der Globalisierung
Spree, Reinhard - 2015
In my view, globalization is a process that has taken place episodically since approximately the beginning of the 16th century. Previously, there were a number of attemps at globalization, which however failed to attain the precondition of regular commercial and communicative relationships among...
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