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Enhancing the Effectiveness of Public Spending in Finland
Hemmings, Philip - 2003
Finland is committed to high quality and extensive public services and a high level of income redistribution. The heavy … public services. This paper, one of a series of OECD reviews on public expenditure, looks at how Finland is coping with this … challenge. It concludes that the fundamental framework guiding public expenditure in Finland is sound. And, in many areas of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012443937
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Ageing, Welfare Serviced and Municipalities in Finland
Lundsgaard, Jens - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2005
With population ageing setting in sooner and more forcefully than in other OECD countries, Finland needs to reorder its … OECD Economic Survey of Finland (www.oecd.org/eco/surveys/finland) updating the Survey’s analysis by incorporating data for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005045751
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Enhancing the Effectiveness of Public Spending in Finland
Hemmings, Philip; Turner, David; Parviainen, Seija - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2003
Finland is committed to high quality and extensive public services and a high level of income redistribution. The heavy … public services. This paper, one of a series of OECD reviews on public expenditure, looks at how Finland is coping with this … challenge. It concludes that the fundamental framework guiding public expenditure in Finland is sound. And, in many areas of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005045665
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Meeting fiscal challenges in Japan's rapidly ageing society
Jones, Randall Sidney; Seitani, Haruki - 2019
Japan’s gross government debt of 226% of GDP in 2018 is the highest ever recorded in the OECD area, and places the economy at risk. The government now aims to achieve a primary surplus by FY 2025. Additional fiscal consolidation, based on a detailed plan covering specific spending cuts and tax...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012111109
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Demographic development and moral hazard : health insurance with medical savings accounts
Schreyögg, Jonas - 2004
In times of ever-rising health expenditures it is becoming more and more obvious that conventional models for funding health care are increasingly experiencing difficulties in meeting up this challenge. The concept of Medical Savings Accounts (MSAs) represents an innovative and so far rarely...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009499933
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International trade and investment by state enterprises
Kowalski, Przemyslaw; Perepechay, Kateryna - 2015
The recent surge in competition between state and private firms in global markets calls for a reflection on how to minimise any potentially distortionary effects on international trade and investment created by state enterprises while at the same time restraining any undue protectionist policy...
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Globalization and Hegemony Shift : Are States Merely Agents of Corporate Capitalism?
Acharya, Upendra D. - 2014
Since the advent of state sovereignty with the Peace of Westphalia, powerful Western nations have determined and applied international law in a manner that advance their national interests. In short, the international legal process has been a mechanism of hegemony, and powerful Western nations...
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Decentralization in Developing Economies
Gadenne, Lucie; Singhal, Monica - In: Annual Review of Economics 6 (2014) 1, pp. 581-604
Standard models of fiscal federalism suggest many benefits of decentralization in developing economies, and there has been a recent push toward decentralization around the world. However, developing countries presently still have less decentralization, particularly on the revenue side, than both...
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Globalisation and National Environmental Policy : Update and Overview
Wijen, Frank; Zoeteman, Kees; Pieters, Jan H. M.; Van … - 2011
After outlining recent developments and the scope, target audience, and structure of the book, we review the literature on globalisation and environmental policy, especially the impact of globalisation on the environment and changes in environmental governance in relation to increasingly global...
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How Does the Incentive Effect of the Charitable Deduction Vary Across Charities?
Yetman, Robert J. - 2013
We examine how taxes affect donations given to nonprofit organizations and how this varies across nonprofit types. Most prior studies constrained tax price elasticities to be constant across nonprofits, primarily because the data do not provide donations by nonprofit type. Using nonprofit-level...
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