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Review of National Competition Policy Reforms
Commission, Productivity - Productivity Commission, Government of Australia
The Productivity Commission’s inquiry report into the ‘Review of the National Competition Policy Reforms’ was released in April 2005. In 2004 the Australian Government asked the Productivity Commission to look at the impact on the economy and the community of NCP and related reforms and...
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Review of National Competition Policy Reforms
Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2005
In 2004, the Australian Government asked the Productivity Commission to look at the impact on the economy and the community of NCP and related reforms and for areas which offer opportunities for significant gains. The Commission found that the benefits of NCP have greatly outweighed the costs....
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Forecasting Investment Needs in South Africa's Electricity and Telecom Sectors
Željko Bogetic; Fedderke, Johannes - Economic Research Southern Africa (ERSA) - 2005
The paper uses a 52-country panel-data for the period 1980-2002 to estimate demand for electricity and telecom services and, based on these estimates, project investment needs in South Africa through 2010 for two growth scenarios. Projections of average annual investment needs in electricity and...
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First Time Underwater: The Impact of the First-time Homebuyer Tax Credit
Baker, Dean - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2012
intention was to spur home buying and put an end to the plunge in home prices, which were dropping at an annual rate of close to … end of 2011, nationwide home prices had fallen by 8.4 percent since the credit-induced peak reached in the second quarter … to sell their homes at prices that were still partially inflated by the bubble. This was good for these homeowners, as …
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The Housing Crash Recession and the Case for a Third Stimulus
Baker, Dean - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2009
work. The author also makes the case for a housing policy centered on the stabilization of prices in non-bubble and …
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The Private Cost Effectiveness of Improving Energy Efficiency
Commission, Productivity - Productivity Commission, Government of Australia
The Productivity Commission’s inquiry report into ‘The Private Cost Effectiveness of Improving Energy Efficiency’, was released on 21 October 2005. The Commission was asked to report on the economic and environmental potential offered by energy efficiency improvements. The Commission found...
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Waste Management
Commission, Productivity - Productivity Commission, Government of Australia
regulation, disposal charges and levies, product stewardship, government procurement and performance indicators. The Commission …; regulation; market-based instruments; extended producer responsibility and product stewardship; Government information provision …
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Infrastructure, Productivity and Urban Dynamics in Cote d'Ivoire, Africa Region Working Paper Series No. 86 (July 2005), The World Bank, Washington D.C.
Bogetic, Zeljko; Sanogo, Issa - EconWPA - 2005
Recent contributions in economic geography reflect renewed interest in issues of location and spatial concentration of economic activities, yet there are still few empirical studies of developing countries, particularly in Africa. This paper aims to contribute to this body of knowledge by (i)...
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Kinerja Keuangan dan Strategi Pembangunan Kota di Era Otonomi
landiyanto, erlangga agustino - EconWPA - 2005
Dengan munculnya UU No. 22 tahun 1999 yang mengatur pelimpahan wewenang dan tanggung jawab dari pemerintah pusat kepada pemerintah daerah serta UU No. 25 tahun 1999 yang mengatur perimbangan keuangan antara pusat dan daerah, selayaknya kota Surabaya mengembangkan sumber daya lokal dan mengurangi...
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Are NIMBY'S commuters?
Saveyn, Bert - Centrum voor Economische Studiën, Faculteit Economie … - 2006
This paper considers a metropolitan area where residents can commute between several jurisdictions. These residents show NIMBY behavior (Not-In-My-Backyard). They try to preserve their living quality by pushing their polluting economic activity to the neighboring jurisdictions, while keeping...
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