Domestic finance
- Community based rural development is more participatory, efficient and sustainable
- L. Coirolo; K. McLean; M. Mokoli; A. Ryan; P. Shah; M. Williams / Rural Development Strategy Team, World Bank, 2001
- This article investigates Community Based Rural Development, which is an approach to reducing rural poverty that promotes collective action by communities and puts them in control of development interventions by making community based...
- Transaction taxes increase market volatility
- K. Habermeier; A. Kirilenko / International Monetary Fund, 2001
- This article emphasises that transaction taxes have a very destructive impact on financial markets where the transformation of latent demands into realized transactions takes place. The article reflects on the transaction taxes...
- Suggestions for 'code of good donor practice'
- M. Foster / Oxford Policy Management, 1999
- This paper discusses how traditional donor practices can cause problems for budget planning and management in aid dependent countries. It discusses recent attempts to reform the budget process, and the donor role in it. Based on this ...
- Have tax levies on bank withdrawals in six Latin American countries been successful?
- I. Coelho; L. Ebrill; V. Summers / International Monetary Fund, 2001
- This paper investigates whether the decision by six Latin American countries, to levy taxes on withdrawals from bank accounts has been successful. The levying of taxes in this manner has been viewed as a convenient tax handle during a...
- The combined incidence of taxes and public expenditures in the Philippines
- Shantayanan Devarajan; Shaikh I. Hossain / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995
- In the Philippines, the combined effect of taxation and spending policies is progressive, because the incidence pattern of spending is progressive while that of taxation is neutral. Indirect taxes, the main source of government revenu...
- The Polish experience with bank and enterprise restructuring
- Fernando Montes - Negret; Luca Papi / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1997
- Poland's program tackled simultaneously bank and enterprise restructuring and dealt decisively with the bad debt stock and flow problem with measures to improve incentives and institutional skills. Among transition economies, Poland w...
- Outline of research programme
- Odd-Helge Fjeldstad; O. Therkildsen; L. Rakner; J. Semboja / Danish Institute for International Studies, 2000
- Taxation, aid and democracy are closely related in poor aid-dependent African countries. The way they tackle the issue of domestic revenue mobilisation significantly influences their potential for economic growth and democratic consol...
- Does more aid leads to poorer governance?
- S. Knack / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2000
- Good governance (in the form of institutions that establish predictable, impartial, and consistently enforced rules for investors) is crucial for the sustained and rapid growth of per capita incomes in poor countries. Aid dependence c...
- 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...
- Privatization, public investment, and capital income taxation
- Harry Huizinga; Soren Bo Nielsen / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1997
- Huizinga and Nielsen investigate the optimal boundary between the public and private production sectors. They use a model in which government and private production coexist in which a range of production activities can be carried out ...
- Report to US Congress on reform of the development banks and the international finance regime
- A.H. Meltzer / International Financial Institution Advisory Commission, US Congress (Meltzer Commission), 2000
- Report recommends many far-reaching changes to improve the effectiveness, accountability, and transparency of the financial institutions and to eliminate overlapping responsibilities The report looking at the future of seven ke...
- Revisiting Grain Movement Control and Taxation in Ethiopia: A Policy Brief
- Food Security III Cooperative Agreement, Michigan State University, 1998
- The current sales tax collection system is affecting negatively the producers income, traders’ profit margins and consumers purchasing power. While the conventional wisdom in Ethiopia is that the tax on grain sales falls on trade...
- Insights from the District Development Project, Uganda
- United Nations Capital Development Fund, 1999
- District Development Project (DDP) Pilot was set up to support the efforts of Ugandans to eradicate poverty in rural areas through improved inclusiveness, efficiency, effectiveness and sustainability in the delivery of public goods an...
- How do we begin to strengthen our ability to assess and improve our government's budget?
- S. Falk; I. Shapiro / International Budget Partnership, 1999
- Introduction to the activities and approach an organization might want to undertake in its first few years of budget work. The purpose is to present a systematic overview of the different aspects of effective budget analysis, with an ...
- Experience with cross-sector donor programmes
- M. Foster; A. Norton; A. Brown; F. Naschold / Overseas Development Institute, 2000
- Paper is an outcome of the informal Like-Minded Donor Working Group on the Implementation of Sector Wide Approaches (SWA). It sets out some of the significant challenges that are facing SWA on the basis of a survey of a wide range of ...
- Budgets as if people mattered: democratizing macroeconomic policies
- N. Cagatay; M Keklik; R Lal; J. Lang / Poverty Elimination Programme, UNDP, 2000
- The concept of 'budgets as if people mattered' is inspired by a large number of initiatives that have emerged around the world during the last fifteen years to examine public budgets through a poverty or gender lens. As many of these ...
- Do budgets really matter?: evidence from public spending on education and health in Uganda
- E. Ablo; R. Reinikka / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1998
- Surveys can provide a useful reality check where institutions are weak. Certainly, budgets and official statistics are inadequate as a guide for policymakers. Ablo and Reinikka demonstrate that budget allocations alone can be misleadi...
- Do tax rates encourage entrepreneurial activity?
- Roger H. Gordon / International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997
- Effects of the European economic and monetary union (EMU) on taxation and interest spending of national governments
- Francesco P Mongelli / International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997
- 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...
