Domestic finance
- Richer people more likely to be tax cheaters in Uruguay
- N. Gandelman / Universidad ORT, Uruguay, 2002
- This study explores who evades tax in a multi community environment with different fiscal policies, and how they do it. The paper uses two stochastic dominance tests to establish the evasion pattern on the Automobile Registration Syst...
- Regional tax exemptions in Russia
- E. Kolomak / Economic Education and Research Consortium,, Russian Federation, 2000
- The federal structure of Russia allows local authorities to determine independently some business taxes, thus opening up the opportunity to influence the business climate in order to attract mobile factors in economic development. ...
- Participatory budgeting in Brazil
- L. Avritzer / Civil Society and Governance Programme, IDS, 2000
- Looks at participatory budgets and analyses the limits of State policies and the role of civil organisations in improving the quality of democratic life. Concentrating on this local level form of democratic management, the report cove...
- New trends in financing for health care: what impact on reproductive health?
- H. Standing / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2002
- This Institute of Development Studies (IDS) working paper examines the impact of different financing regimes on the delivery of reproductive health services in low and middle income countries. It explores three issues: (1) broad trend...
- Effectiveness of local government taxes in Tanzania
- M. Moore; O. Fjelstad / Governance and Development Review, IDS, 2001
- There is considerable evidence that a significant cause of bad governance, especially in poorer countries, is that states are financed not from the 'earned income' that they derive from taxing their citizens, but rather from the 'unea...
- Tax rates in Brazil and South Africa
- M. Moore; E.S. Lieberman / Governance and Development Review, IDS, 2002
- Brazil and South Africa have much in common. In particular, they are both large middle income countries with very high levels of income inequality where whites historically have dominated over blacks. They differ markedly in te...
- ODI series of papers looking at community forestry and wildlife management practice in Cameroon
- Policy and Environment Programme, ODI, 2001
- Collection which takes as its theme the many and important values which can be derived from community involvement in forest management in the humid tropics, focussing on one of the major timber producers of the tropical world – t...
- Post-conflict reconstruction: a comparative analysis
- W. Byrd / United Nations Development Programme, 2001
- This conference paper investigates comparatively the nature of post-conflict situations, focusing primarily on Afghanistan The article finds that: each post-conflict situation is different and in its own way uniq...
- The budget process in developing countries, and the role of aid within it
- M. Foster; A. Fozzard / Centre for Aid and Public Expenditure, ODI, 2000
- Which way forward for development aid? Current practice tends towards a more comprehensive approach to funding. Will this be more effective than specific project aid? It could be, according to this study. The key to success is a thoro...
- Is the current pattern of aid disbursements welfare-reducing?
- A. Bulír; A. J. Hamann / WIDER Development Conference on Debt Relief, 2001
- This paper examines the empirical evidence on the volatility and uncertainty of aid flows, and discusses the main policy implications of our findings. Findings: Aid is more volatile than revenues–particularly in highly aid...
- Aid coordination and aid effectiveness
- A. Disch / Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Norway, 1999
- Both donors and aid recipients are spending considerable resources on aid coordination activities. The trend seems to be towards an increase in these levels, yet relatively little is known about the outcomes and impact of these effort...
- Carbon Taxes - Their Macroeconomic Effects and Prospects for Global Adoption - A Survey of the Literature
- Javier Cuervo; Ved P Gandhi / International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1998
- Many industrial countries have agreed to binding reductions of greenhouse gases under the Kyoto Protocol. A carbon tax is one of the most efficient instruments available to achieve this objective. While such a tax could generate subst...
- Regional integration and factor income taxation
- Valeria De Bonis / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1997
- Aid, Taxation, and Development: Analytical Perspectives on Aid Effectiveness in Sub-Saharan Africa
- C.S. Adam; S.A. O'Connell / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1998
- Designing effective aid programs requires accurately diagnosing problems. Under current donor efforts to promote democratization and institutional development, the shift from policy to institutional conditionality reflects an attempt ...
- Does Swedish debt relief contribute to economic growth? Does economic growth reach the poor? Does Sweden influence policies in partner countries? Have donors supported the "right" reforms?
- H. White / Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, 1999
- Programme aid - that is, import support, debt relief and budget support - has constituted a considerable part of Swedish aid in the 1990's. However, the volumes of programme aid have fallen both in relative and absolute terms during t...
- Approaches to understanding decision making in public resource allocation: an appreciation of institutional politics
- A. Fozzard / Overseas Development Institute, 2001
- On what basis, and how, are decisions made regarding how public money should be spent? This paper, written by the Centre for Aid and Public Expenditure at the Overseas Development Institute (ODI), summarises different budgeting theori...
- Women’s and gender budgets: an annotated resource list
- H. Reeves; H. Wach / BRIDGE, 1999
- Gives details of publications and other resources on women’s or gender budgets at national, provincial, and local levels, and within institutions. It also provides references that give an overview of the budget process from a gen...
- First report from the Kenyan IEAs Budget Information Programme (BIP)
- D. Okello / Institute of Economic Affairs, Kenya, 2000
- Looks at Kenya's budget practice and process and the new budgeting approach, the Medium Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF). Finds that: as an instrument for stimulating or inducing growth Kenya's budgetary process...
- How can aid be used most efficiently?
- S. Wangwe / Economic and Social Research Foundation, Tanzania, 1997
- The paper analyzed foreign aid management in Tanzania. The paper used secondary information and qualitative data from various research studies, Government institutions and NGO’s. Among others the paper has examined trends ...
- Promoting Primary Education for Girls in Malawi
- Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 1999
- Evaluation of USAID GABLE programme. USAID initiatives have helped increase girls’ access to education but this success, combined with implications of a national universal education policy, is burdening an already overloaded syst...
- India Post
- Indian Government department running postal services, part of Department of Post, Ministry of Communications & IT.
- BBVA Research (BBVA)
- Research wing of Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, a multinational banking and financial services organisation. Originally Spanish, it has a major presence in Latin America. Research outputs cover: Macroeconomic Analysis Sectorial Analysis Global Trends Pensions
- Global Extension of Social Security
- GESS is a global knowledge sharing platform on the extension of social security and aims to facilitate the exchange of information and ideas, capture and document experiences, identify knowledge gaps, create new knowledge and promote innovation. To achieve this goal, GESS relies on the contributions of its users and the dialogue and exchange between them. This platform, developed and r...
- Retirement Security Project, Brookings
- The Retirement Security Project is dedicated to promoting solutions to improve the retirement income prospects of millions of American workers. Nearly half of all workers do not have access to an employer-sponsored retirement savings plan, those that do often fail to participate. To address these trends, RSP proposes research-based policies aimed at helping middle- and low-income Americans prepare...
- U.S. Census Bureau
- Organisation collecting data on the people and economy of the United States. Data includes: Population & Housing Census - every 10 years Economic Census - every 5 years American Communtity Survey - annually Other demographic & economic surveys Economic Indicators - each indicator is released on a specific...
- PensionReforms
- Online resource centre covering pensions issues. Site contains collections of papers searchable by country, topic, author(s), institution producing the publication, year published. Site is run by Retirement Policy and Research Centre, School of Business at the University of Auckland, New Zealand.
- Retirement Policy and Research Centre (RPRC)
- New Zealand's ageing population poses many economic challenges. The RPRC is an academically focused centre specialising in the economic issues of demographic change. The RPRC's sphere of interest includes public provision of retirement income (New Zealand superannuation) and the accumulation and decumulation phases of retirement saving. International debate is facilitated through pensionreforms, a...
- Population Ageing and Sustainable Livelihoods in regions affected by HIV/AIDS
- The population Ageing and Sustainable Livelihoods in regions affected by HIV/AIDS project was funded by the ESRC and ran from August 2005 until November 2006. Hosted at University of Sheffield. Website includes briefing notes: Project Outline Briefing Note 1 Methodology Briefing Note 1a Elderly Headed Households Profile Briefing Note 2...
- Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic economics (CHILD)
- Promotes the collaboration of researchers in the field of population and household economics with a particular interest to the relationships between households, within households and between the family and the state by organising conferences, seminars and research on these themes. Acts as a network for the activities of five Italian universities.
- Luxembourg Income Study (LIS)
- The Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) is a cross-national data archive located in Luxembourg. The LIS archive contains two primary databases. The LIS Database includes income microdata from a large number of countries at multiple points in time. The newer LWS Database includes wealth microdata from a smaller selection of countries. Both databases include labour market and demographic data as wel...
