Public finance and taxation

How government can forge dynamic public-private partnershipsAll too often government lacks the skill, the will, and the wallet to meet its missions.

What drug provides Americans with the greatest pleasure and the greatest pain?

This book covers a broad range of the most challenging topics in US international taxation laws before breaking into separate discussions of the issues related to both inbound and outbound taxes.

In all countries debt and deficits of the public sector are at the heart of economic policy debate.

Since World War II the subject of social choice has grown in many and surprising ways.

European welfare states are currently under stress and the 'social contracts' that underpin them are being challenged.

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

This interdisciplinary collection of essays takes a hard look at the gap between increasingly costs expectations of welfare including other social needs and available revenues.

The privatization of public utilities raises several complex issues.

Since World War II the subject of social choice has grown in many and surprising ways.

This book opens up the secret world of tax havens and offshore finance centres (OFCs), a vast offshore business valued at over one trillion US dollars.

This book presents case-studies in accountable government and the management of public funds, with particular reference to the multi-party political systems of Botswana, Jamaica, Sri Lanka and Zambia under the Third Republic.

The four dragons of Asia - Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan and South Korea - have achieved remarkable progress over the past decades.

The objective of this book is to present an integrated set of original papers from leading authorities in the field related to optimal balance between arms reduction and regional and international security.

'A brilliant critical and fresh look at the public choice school of thought.

The single market has been operating in Europe since 1 January 1993 but the twelve national fiscal systems remain independent.

Recent decades have seen the study of politics invaded by economic theories, methods and techniques.

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This book focuses on taxation and economic policy making.

This book was prepared mainly for specialists on the assumption that it would provide the background to an important neglected field of discussion in public finance.

This book describes the complex of economic processes which sustains inflationary pressure in nations with severe inflation problems.

A compilation of papers given at a Conference of the International Economic Association analyze the world-wide experiences of incomes policy when, in the 1970s and early 1980s, this was seen as a crucial target for government.

A collection of essays presenting new insights into the analysis of public debt theory, recent historical episodes, econometric analyses and policy dilemmas and options.

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An authoritative study of attempts to deregulate and roll back the state in Britain from 1979-1997.

These essays explore the utility of thinking about public-private partnerships for local economic development.

This book examines the procedures for determining the pay of public sector workers in six European Countries: France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden and the UK.

This non-technical volume analyses topical problems of public finance in a changing world characterized by growing mobility of production factors, liberalized economic policy regimes, and the formation of new nations.

Highlighting recent revolutionary changes, this volume deals with the ongoing transformation from central planning towards more efficient economic structures in Eastern and Central Europe and the former USSR.

Investigates various aspects of inflation - the recent history of inflation as well as potential sources of changes, the technical issues regarding the measurement of inflation, the indicators for future inflation, and the policy implications to achieve and maintain price stability.

Tax Havens for International Business is a special management report that shows how the establishment of a tax haven operation, in any of many locations worldwide, can save more money than any internal tax-shelter programme.

Locates the inefficiencies of the traditional public enterprise model within its management and contextual factors.

The book examines the effect of various public policies on economic performance in Japan.

Governments need to know how much revenue their tax systems will raise, who will pay tax and what the effects on the incentives to save, work and invest will be.

The Nordic tax systems have recently undergone dramatic changes.

Despite the various policy approaches tried over the years, the essential problem of the Latin American debt remains unabated - that financing the debts' burden impairs the developmental efforts of the region.

Using Thai-language archival material, this book examines a crucial element in the dismantling of the traditional government structure and the installation of a Western-style administration - the creation of a modern Ministry of Finance.

Presents the policies and strategies of a wide-ranging group of ministerial personalities, central bankers, regulators and chief or senior executives of major financial and industrial groups.

This volume contains 24 of the contributions made to the conference on "e;Economic Decision-making in a Changing World"e; held in 1988.

The books in this series aim to reflect the enormous economic and political changes that small and medium-sized nations in East and South-East Asia have been undergoing in the 1970s and 1980s and to show the impact of these changes on the world economy.