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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"HJ Public Finance"”.
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Essays on Public Economics
This dissertation gathers three essays on public economics. The first chapter studies the effects of local income taxation on tax base and individual mobility since the early 2000s in Italy. I combine novel fine-grained data on the universe of tax residence’s transfers with 89,860 local income tax …
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The effects of health sector reform interventions in Egypt on family planning and maternal and child health
This thesis is composed of four essays that make empirical contributions to impact evaluations of health sector interventions in low- and middle-income countries, in light of the interventions introduced under Egypt#s Health Sector Reform Program (HSRP) between 2000 and 2014. We are mainly …
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Would a ‘flat tax’ simplify the UK’s corporation tax legislation and reduce the associated compliance costs?
Most parties with an interest in UK tax law appear to be able to agree on one thing: it is complex. Surveys show that the UK tax code is now the longest in the world, having recently overtaken India to claim that dubious title. It is equally the case that the amount, as well as the complexity of …
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Three essays on Self-Government Accounting Practices under Settler Colonialism: A Case study from Palestine.
… essay (Chapter 2) explores the enactment of New Public Financial Management (NPFM) as a component of the liberal peace-building discourse, disseminated by the World Bank. The study relies on the Fairclough dialectical relational approach to Critical Discourse Analysis (1992, 1999, 2010, 2012). …
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Value for Money Evaluation of Three Operational NHS Private Finance Initiative Contracts
This thesis draws on the analysis of data from interviews, observations, documents and archival records to examine the conditions of possibility for PFI procurements by three English National Health Service (NHS) Trusts and the extent to which these projects are affordable and delivering Value for …
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Essays on the US Public Equity and High Yield Bond Markets as a Source of Finance for Shipping Companies
… of underpricing of shipping US initial public offerings (IPOs). The analysis is carried out through five chapters and each chapter covers a topic on its own so that it can be read independently of previous and subsequent chapters. Chapter 1 provides an overview of the shipping US public …
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Portofolio behaviour of scheduled banks of Pakistan
This study has attempted to explain the portfolio behavior of the Pakistani Schedule banks and to provide the Pakistan monetary authorities with the best possible model through which they can influence the economy. First of all, we have investigated the links between monetary policy, the Banking …
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The effect of trade liberalization on taxation and government revenue
This thesis investigates the trade and revenue impact of trade liberalization. The purpose is to address the following issues: to examine the effect of trade liberalization on the volume of imports and exports, taxation, and its association with the enhancement of the performance of overall tax …
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Local government accounting in Portugal in comparative-international perspective
… issues) started in 1990 for the whole Portuguese Public Administration. This thesis describes how the Portuguese local government accounting system currently works, specifically addressing budgetary, financial and cost accounting techniques. Using Lüder’s Financial Management Reform Process Model, …
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Essays on public pension systems, with special reference to China
This thesis studies the provision of public pension system through three different approaches. Part one focuses on demographic change and pension system reforms in China. It reviews the historical reforms and the problems and suggestions associated with the current system. More importantly, by …
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Consequences of oil price plunges for the Kazakh economy and possible mitigation measures
The last oil prices plunge1, which started in June 2014, affected the world economies seriously. This dissertation addresses the reasons, which resulted in this situation on the world oil market. It then analyzes consequences for oil exporting and importing countries, opportunities and challenges …
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The Project to Improve Financial Reporting and Auditing (PIFRA): Issues in the implementation of ERP in Public sector of Pakistan
… Improve Financial Reporting and Auditing) in the public sector of Pakistan. It investigates the process of implementation of New Accounting Model (NAM) and SAP as a reform imitative to overhaul the century old archaic financial management system. This study has three dimensions: implementation of …
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Public law and public management: “theory” and “values” in corporation tax reform
… arguments. It views the corporation tax code as public law, energised by political values whose meaning and prioritisation are shaped by the prudential logic of effectiveness. The institutions that generate the code, and the challenges of globalisation to the nation state, have highlighted …
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Modes of governance and public service efficiency
… relationship between modes of governance and public service efficiency. We argue that different modes of governance yield different levels of efficiency depending on the nature and scale of the transactions upon which they are deployed. The experience of OECD countries is used to examine the …
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The role of monetary and financial reform in approaching the European Union: the case of Serbia
… 1989 with the Markovic programme, while the Republic was a constitutive part of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY). The study confirms that the SRFY was the first country to start transition from a socialist to a market economy, but that this advanced position was lost due to a …
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Risk management in public expenditure management and service delivery in Malaysia
… is more effective in managing risks related to public financial management and aid as compared to the Government of Malaysia approach. The study compares financial management by the World Bank and Ministry of Education, Government of Malaysia, in their parallel implementation of Educational …
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