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    Lessons from the South African electricity crisis

    International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2008
    The ongoing electricity crisis in South Africa is having serious consequences on the economy. Electricity supply is predicted to constrain growth for at least the next five years. How could this have occurred when until recently South Africa had a surplus of cheap electricity?
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    Voices of women entrepreneurs in Bosnia and Herzegovina

    World Bank Research, 2008
    This paper highlights the many positive role models of Bosnian businesswomen. Their stories of succeeding in a challenging post-war environment provide inspiration to young women who are just starting out in their professional life.
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    Making the Indian budget: how open and participatory?

    Economic and Political Weekly, India, 2007
    Open and participatory budget making is essential for good governance. Analysing the process of budget making in India, this article says by international standards India fares poorly on this count. The participation of both the public and parliament has been inadequate.
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    Reforming retirement-income systems: lessons from the recent experiences of OECD countries

    Institute of Labor Economics, Bonn, 2008
    Reforming pensions looms large over the policy agenda of OECD countries. This is hardly surprising since public spending on pensions accounted on average for 7 per cent of OECD GDP in 2005; and pension spending is set to increase significantly over the coming decades in response to population ageing.
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    Apocalyptic demography? Putting longevity risk in perspective

    Pensions Institute, 2008
    This report has been prepared for finance directors of organisations with significant defined benefit (DB) pension liabilities. The authors argue that longevity risk - the risk that pension scheme members will live materially longer than assumed - is the most topical and challenging of risks currently facing scheme managers.
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    Slim governments boost economic growth and deliver higher social gains

    Centre for Policy Studies, UK, 2008
    This paper reviews the economic performance of 20 industrialised countries to examine the validity of the early supply-side economists' argument that lower taxes will boost growth and therefore eventually lead to higher and more efficient government spending. It finds that slimmer governments (those with government revenue and expenditure below 40 per cent of GDP):
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    Assessing the redistributive effect of fiscal policy

    World Bank, 2008
    How does a government’s fiscal policy, and, specifically, its tax policy, influence the distribution of economic welfare in a society? In the context of poverty and inequality, accounting for the distributional effects of public policy is essential when evaluating government intervention. One way of doing this is through expenditure and tax incidence analysis.
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    Inflation-targeting in sub-Saharan Africa: why now? Why at all?

    Centre for Development Policy and Research, SOAS, 2008
    As only the second central bank in Sub-Saharan Africa, the Bank of Ghana has adopted an inflation-targeting regime.  This paper argues that this step is wrong and comes at a bad time as:
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    Understanding responses to pension forecasts: qualitative research

    UK Government Department for Work and Pensions, 2008
    This report is the result of a project commissioned by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) which aimed to enrich understanding of people’s responses to pension forecasts.
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    The government budget: a critical appraisal with reference to transparency and accountability

    Pathfinder Foundation, 2007
    This briefing paper, prepared for the purpose of educating legislators in Sri Lanka on issues relating to their government budget, addresses the following questions:

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