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Centre for European Reform <London>

The Centre for European Reform is a think-tank devoted to improving the quality of the debate on the European Union. It …

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The Case for Taxing Consumption

Lang, Joachim - 1990

This article deals with fundamental and topical problems of taxation policy, viewing the subject from both a German and an international perspective. Traditional income tax regimes in developed countries with their progressive tax rates are still based upon the redistributive philosophy which...

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International Coercion, Emulation and Policy Diffusion: Market-Oriented Infrastructure Reforms, 1977-1999

Henisz, Witold J.; Zelner, Bennet A.; Guillen, Mauro F. - 2004

-history analysis of the determinants of reform in the telecommunications and electricity sectors of as many as 205 countries and … borrowing countries. We discuss the possibility that, by pressuring countries into policy reform, cross-national coercion and …

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The Economic Effects of a Corporate Tax Reform

Levinson, Kevin - 2008

-income tax is the best option when looking at tax reform. …

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To Praise the AMT or to Bury It

Goldberg, Daniel S. - 2005

on a glass half empty instead of on a glass half full. The recently advocated “reform” of simply scrapping the AMT would …

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DEVELOPMENT OF HUMAN CAPITAL AS A TOOL FOR IMPROVING PRODUCTIVITY OF AGRICULTURAL SECTOR – CASE OF SERBIA

Zubovic, Jovan; Domazet, Ivana; Stosic, Ivan - 2009

New trends in global economy require greater capacity of the agricultural workforce. In order improve agricultural productivity it is needed to increase the level of human capital of the agrarian population. Human capital is accumulatedknowledge, created in the long term process of human...

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Clean development mechanism: Perspectives from developing countries

Sari, Agus P.; Meyers, Stephen - 2008

acceptance of CDM. The outgrowth of CDM from a proposal from Brazil to establish a Clean Development Fund gave developing …

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Conservation potential of compact fluorescent lamps in India and Brazil

Gadgil, A.; Martino Jannuzzi, G. de - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, SP - 2008

electrical energy and peak demand in India and Brazil. Using very conservative assumptions, we find that the cost of conserved … of avoided peak installed capacity is 6 and 9.5 times less than the cost of new installed capacity for India and Brazil … national savings of the order of US $1.2 million per day for India and US $2.5 million per day for Brazil are reached in 10 …

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Projected refined product balances in key Latin American countries: A preliminary examination

2009

Over the years, the East-West Center (EWC) has developed considerable expertise in refinery modeling, especially in the area of forecasting product balances for countries, given planned capacity changes, changes in product demand, changes in crude slates, and changes in product specifications....

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Carbon mitigation potential and costs of forestry options in Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Mexico, the Philippines and Tanzania

Sathaye, J.; Makundi, W.; Andrasko, K.; Boer, R.; … - 2009

This paper summarizes studies of carbon (C) mitigation potential and costs of about 40 forestry options in seven developing countries. Each study uses the same methodological approach - Comprehensive Mitigation Assessment Process (COMAP) - to estimate the above parameters between 2000 and 2030....

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