Public finance and taxation

Public policies increasingly emphasize active consumerism, entrepreneurship on the part of service providers and professionals, privatisation and an expanded role for markets.

Two important events in 1997--the balanced-budget deal and the completion of the Pentagon's Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR)--promise to shape U.

This book focuses on development of blockchain-based new-generation financial infrastructures, in which a systematic, complete theoretical framework is proposed to explore blockchain-based securities trading platform, central securities depository (CSD), securities settlement system (SSS), central counterparty (CCP), payment system (PS) and trade repository (TR).

This book explains and illustrates each of the requirements for a nontaxable corporate division and the methods for mitigating the tax consequences when those requirements cannot be satisfied.

This book focuses on the Defined Benefit (DB) pension scheme for pensionable civil servants in Malaysia, as a result of the rapidly rising pattern of pension costs for public servants in the country.

This volume explores the influence of professional service firms on public policy-making from a global perspective.

A timely and incisive look at austerity measures that succeed-and those that don'tFiscal austerity is hugely controversial.

Malgré le constat de l’urgence climatique partagé par une grande partie de la population, les voix divergent quant aux moyens politiques à mettre en oeuvre pour apporter des réponses concrètes aux défis environnementaux auxquels nous devons faire face.

This important book by an experienced authority on social security discusses a subject of vital interest to governments and peoples everywhere.

This book explores two recent crises in British political economy: the crisis of 1976-9, for which the trade unions were impugned, and the 2007 economic crisis, for which bankers were (at least initially) blamed.

The language of public debt is an ideological language, not a scientific language that clarifies the practice of public finance.

Offers a comprehensive, region-wide analysis of the politics of taxation in Latin America to make reforms politically palatable and sustainable.

This book is the first to shed light on the recent opinion of taxpayers on tax and fiscal policy in Japan through an attitude questionnaire.

Uses real plan data to show that retirement plans should limit an employee''s ability to unwisely allocate their investments.

This book provides quantitative evidence on the issues in fiscal and monetary policies in Mongolia and presents necessary policy recommendations for policymakers and academic circles.

This book is an unprecedented consideration of the challenges of what we can do for generations yet to come.

Excise taxes on smoking, drinking, gambling, polluting, and driving are always topical and controversial.

This book explores the formation and evolution of Scandinavian central banks.

America's most trusted tax advice, backed by detailed citations of authoritative tax references J.

Because the actions of multinational corporations have a clear and direct effect on the flow of capital throughout the world, how and why these firms behave the way they do is a major issue for national governments and their policymakers.

This volume showcases the impact of the work of Douglass North, father of the field of new institutional economics.

The nation's most trusted tax guide, updated for your 2018 returns J.

Indebtedness, like inequality, has become a ubiquitous condition in the United States.

On tax day, April 15, 2010, hundreds of thousands of Americans took to the streets with signs demanding lower taxes on the richest one percent.

Basing his study on in-depth interviews with more than 130 companies across Canada, Jorge Niosi analyses the scope of collaborative research activities - both domestic and international - in the fields of biotechnology, electronics, advanced materials, and manufacturing of transportation equipment.

This book presents overwhelming evidence that US government stimulus programs over the past fifty years have not worked.

"e;This book will let you see the little-known but effective trading tactics and methods of today's top market makers.

The Palgrave Handbook of Sovereign Wealth Funds provides a comprehensive, detailed analysis of these funds from a multidimensional perspective consisting of 33 chapters divided into seven sections.

Why did the British and American corporate tax systems diverge early in the twentieth century and is convergence now likely?

Beginning in the 1860s, the Russian Empire replaced a poll tax system that originated with Peter the Great with a modern system of income and excise taxes.

The cost benefit technique is so often referenced in government policy that a correct understanding is necessary for officials entrusted with public decisions.

This book features an in-depth comparative study of South American National Development Bank's governance systems.

A rapidly growing area of economic research investigates the top of the income distribution using data from income tax records.

This book elaborates on how Norway has managed to convert a large fraction of its endowment of hydrocarbons below the seabed of Norwegian waters into financial wealth, invested in the world's capital markets.

Wise investors uncover a company's real story.

Leading scholars from across the social sciences present empirical evidence that the obstacle of regulatory capture is more surmountable than previously thought.

La fiscalité est au coeur des processus de développement.

Participatory Budgeting (PB) is one of the most popular democratic innovations of recent times.