Purpose -The Spanish airport system contains several regional airports within an amenity distance and alternative travel modes. Profitable airports cross-subsidise small airports, which are not required for regional development or connectivity. Airports are government-owned and...

There is scant empirical economic research regarding the way that Latin American governments efficiently allocate their spending across different functions to achieve higher growth. While most papers restrict their analysis to the size of government, much less is known about the composition of...

This text set out to survey long-term trends in the Ministry of Education - MEC budget. A first point was the construction of a twenty-year series of commitments settled in the MEC budget in open public consultations available to the general public. Having done this, a second point, already...

In this paper the authors investigate the importance of women's economic empowerment and its impact on the rise of female entrepreneurship and human capital in Namibia. The research includes a case study analysis with four in-depth expert interviews. Data triangulation ensure the study's...

Since the start of the financial crisis, industrial country public debt levels have increased dramatically. And they are set to continue rising for the foreseeable future. A number of countries face the prospect of large and rising future costs related to the ageing of their populations. In this...

Policymakers have been puzzled to observe that food stamp households appear more likely tobe food insecure than observationally similar eligible nonparticipating households. We reexamine this issueallowing for nonclassical reporting errors in food stamp participation and food insecurity....

Der demographische Wandel gefährdet die langfristige Tragfähigkeit der öffentlichen Finanzen in Deutschland. Der Beitrag illustriert dies mit Hilfe langfristiger Simulationen der staatlichen Ausgaben für Alterssicherung, Gesundheit und Pflege, Arbeitslose sowie Bildung und Familien, die auf...

The paper evaluates the fiscal policy initiatives during the Great Recession in the United States. It argues that, although the nonconventional fiscal policies targeted at the financial sector dwarfed the conventional countercyclical stabilization efforts directed toward the real sector, the...

Global food price hikes during 2007 and 2008 resulted in a sharp rise in staple food prices in Bangladesh. The poor and marginalized households were particularly vulnerable to such an adverse situation as their real purchasing power eroded. Several studies indicated that the adverse effects of...

The global food price crisis of 2007/08 raised fears about the impacts of higher and more volatile food prices for the poor in Zambia. Like in the past, the implementation of the strategies to deal with the rising food prices, especially for the staple crop maize were delayed due to ineffective...