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    Taxation, social cohesion and fiscal decentralization in Latin America

    2008
    This paper discusses the conceptual relationships of taxation, fiscal decentralisation and social cohesion.The paper argues that an active promotion of social inclusion and equity can be facilitated by a tax system which has: - a broad tax base, a reasonable degree of nominal progression and a fiscal decentralization regime based on principles of market- preservation, fiscal equivalence and accoun
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    Participatory Budgeting in Africa: A Training Companion with cases from eastern and southern Africa - Volume II: facilitation methods

    Affiliated Network for Social Accountability, 2008
    Participatory budgeting in Africa is part of an effort to build the capacity of local government officials and their partners for greater accountability and good governance. This toolkit is aimed at helping local governments and other stakeholders to prepare for, design, initiate and manage a participatory budgeting process, by training key actors who initiate the budgeting processes.
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    Participatory Budgeting in Africa: A Training Companion with cases from eastern and southern Africa - Volume I: concepts and principles

    Affiliated Network for Social Accountability, 2008
    Participatory budgeting in Africa is part of an effort to build the capacity of local government officials and their partners for greater accountability and good governance. This companion is aimed at helping local governments and other stakeholders to prepare for, design, initiate and manage a participatory budgeting process, by training key actors who initiate the budgeting processes.
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    Social security in other countries: worldwide social security agencies

    Social Security Online, 2008
    Directory of websites of social security agencies and organisations around the world. Compiled by Social Security Online (USA).
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    Assessing Public Financial Management systems in developing countries: what works, what doesn’t and why

    Oxford Policy Management, 2008
    With the increasing provision of general budget support (GBS), donors are more interested in the assessment of the recipients' public financial management (PFM) systems. Against this background, this note examines the application the Public Expenditure and Financial Accountability (PEFA) performance measurement framework which has been designed as a response to:
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    Reform of retirement provisions: feasibility studies

    Department of Social Development, Republic of South Africa, 2008
    The government of South Africa is undertaking retirement reform initiatives to establish a comprehensive social security system. The potential components of the system are a universal noncontributory system (or social assistance), a mandatory contributory system and regulatory oversight of additional voluntary arrangements.
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    Resources for Retirement

    Commercial company offering advisory services to retirement pension plan sponsors in the United States.
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    Understanding poverty among the elderly in India: implications for social pension policy

    Institute of Labor Economics, Bonn, 2008
    Cash transfers to the poor elderly as social pensions are one of the most important anti-poverty programmes operating in India today. In 2007, the Government of India announced that changes to eligibility rules would increase the number of beneficiaries from an estimated 8.7 to almost 16 million people or roughly one in five elderly Indians.
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    Supermarkets and the poor in Vietnam

    Making markets work better for the poor, 2006
    The number of supermarkets in Vietnam is increasing due to government incentives, increased urbanisation and growing purchasing power. However, for price and access reasons, street vending remains the dominant retail mode. Poor consumers also often reject shopping at supermarkets because of freshness concerns. For many, supermarkets serve as pure entertainment.
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    Housing finance agencies in Asia

    Bank for International Settlements, 2006
    This paper examines the role of government-supported housing finance agencies in seven Asian countries - Hong Kong, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand. The nature and size of the government subsidies received by these agencies are examined as well as their distribution among households, financial institutions and the agencies themselves. The paper finds:

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