Public finance and taxation

An in-depth analysis of the fundamental role that decentralization plays in developing countries, using detailed statistical data to examine the actual fiscal structure between tiers of government, and the effects of decentralization at the local, national and international levels.

This book focuses on the distributional consequences of the public sector and examines and documents, theoretically and empirically, the effects of government spending and taxation on personal distribution, and includes chapters investigating the relationship between the public sector and functional distribution of national income.

Some goods and services are normally left to the market mechanism.

The amount collected in taxation, the items which have been taxed, and the classes of people on whom the tax burden has fallen, have all changed greatly in the period from the Restoration to the present.

Economics for a Civilized Society incorporates both self-interest and civic value motivations to provide an understanding of how our economic system works and how we can develop economic policies that assures a prosperous and civil society.

Maastricht will induce changes to the EC budget the various dimensions of which are explored in this volume.

This book explains how banking institutions in Portugal were able to maintain their strength and solubility while undergoing a demanding Program of Financial Assistance from the International Monetary Fund, the European Central Bank and the European Commission from May 2011 and May 2014.

Management accounting has undergone significant evolution moving away from rigid budgeting programs and static output measures to comprehensive approaches of value identification and measurement.

The book analyses the Spanish financial system from the turn of the last century to the present day and the economic, social and political backdrop to this history.

In June 2010 IE Business School, with King Abdulaziz University, gathered in Madrid some of the world's foremost scholars, academics and practitioners of Islamic Economics and Finance.

Updated and revised, this second edition applies advanced financial analytics within a strategic framework that recognizes an environment where sustainable competitive advantage is a progressively more difficult task.

Selected essays from the eminent economist, Wynne Godley, tracing the development of his work and illuminating the key theories and models that made his name.

A survey of past financial crises, starting with the great banking collapses of the interwar period.

As a collection of alternative views on societies, methodologies, policies and assessment of the current elements of the society, Alternative Perspectives on a Good Society brings together different authors answering different questions all within the context of visions of a good society.

The book reveals how the Global Credit Bubble and Bust of 2003-10 stemmed from giant monetary disequilibrium created by the Federal Reserve.

The 40th annual edition of the leading guide to taxation in Britain.

An inside view of the forces which shaped SEPA and the PSD written from the unique perspective of someone closely involved throughout the process.

This volume deals with both a new theoretical framework and the capability of new economics to tackle a number of economic problems.

With the current global crisis, high levels of volatility in trade, capital flows, commodity prices, aid, and the looming threat of climate change, this book brings together high-quality research and presents conceptual issues and empirical results to analyze the determinants of the vulnerability to poverty in developing countries.

This book on the different aspects of international economic policy covers financial crises, reserve accumulation, capital flows and currency wars as well as issues relating to foreign direct investment and developments in China and India.

Public sector organizations are about to enter one of the most challenging environments they have ever had to face as they bear much of the cost of the credit crunch.

This book analyzes privatization in Ireland, a European economy that has experienced rapidly changing fortunes over the last thirty years.

The book presents arguments against the taxpayers'-funded bailing out of failed financial institutions, and puts forward suggestions to circumvent the TBTF problem, including some preventive measures.

The 39th annual edition of the leading guide to taxation in Britain.

During the ongoing global financial crisis, a lack of moral and ethical leadership in society has been exposed.

This is the 31st annual edition of the leading guide to taxation in Britain.

This book explores new forms of private, mutual municipal, public-private and 'reverse' state funding of public investments, co-payments and shared contributions, vouchers, and pooled public risk-financing.

Drawn from the results of five seminars this unique book looks at the four areas of: public sector reform; essential features for public leaders; public leadership in action; and the outline of a public leadership approach for the future.

This book explains how financial institutions, such as banks and finance houses, manage their portfolios of credit cards, loans, mortgages and other types of retail credit agreements.

This volume contributes to empirical research on the role of national fiscal rules and institutions in shaping fiscal policies.

This book addresses the EU as powerful driver of the wave of privatizations in the network industries and public services since the early 1990s.

Critics of referendums often lament that big money may buy success at the ballot box.

This book provides a clear and concise explanation of withholding tax and how to leverage best practice to generate improved investment performance.

The 38th annual edition of the leading guide to taxation in Britain.

Moving beyond the 'post-Washington consensus', this book shifts the focus of development policy debates away from expenditures and austerity and towards revenues and resources.

Presenting capitalisms as open, system-like configurations, this book argues four ideal-typical varieties (liberal, statist, corporatist, meso-communitarian) and analyzes the socio-economic performances of advanced capitalisms.

Recognizing increasing returns disrupts much of the established wisdom in economic analysis, making money non-neutral, equity conflict with freedom, and encouraging goods with increasing returns efficient.

Analyses in the Economics of Aging summarizes a massive amount of new research on several popular and less-examined topics pertaining to the relationship between economics and aging.

In the increasingly global economy, domestic tax policies have taken on a new importance for international economics.

For dozens of developing countries, the financial upheavals of the 1980s have set back economic development by a decade or more.

For dozens of developing countries, the financial upheavals of the 1980s have set back economic development by a decade or more.

For dozens of developing countries, the financial upheavals of the 1980s have set back economic development by a decade or more.

For dozens of developing countries, the financial upheavals of the 1980s have set back economic development by a decade or more.

In fiscal year 1981-82, state and local government spending actually exceeded federal nondefense spending.

We often think of fiscal decisions as being made by a single government, but in the United States the reality is that an astounding number of entities have the power to tax and spend.

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

Government spending has increased dramatically in the United States since World War II despite the many rules intended to rein in the insatiable appetite for tax revenue most politicians seem to share.

This ninth phase of the International Social Security project, which studies the experiences of twelve developed countries, examines the effects of public pension reform on employment at older ages.

Americans spend hours every day sitting in traffic.

Taxing Women comprises both an insightful, critical analysis of the gender biases in current tax laws and a wake-up call for all those concerned with gender justice to pay more attention to the pervasive impact of such laws.