Other · October 31, 2014
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This paper presents the status of development and challenges in the use of integrated project design and appraisal methods for public sector investment project selection and budgeting. It is motivated by the importance of good project preparation to enhan ...
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Chapter · October 17, 2014
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Public resources, if invested well in public infrastructure and services, can unleash inclusive growth and development. ...
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Chapter · August 15, 2013
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The priority placed on efficiency and accountability by the second-generation
fiscal federalism model strongly complements the objectives of public financial
management reforms, which have a similar focus – to improve the operational
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Report · 2011
The Commonwealth of the Bahamas has translated sound economic management, political stability and close proximity to the world’s largest consumer market into steady growth and high levels of per capita income. Real annual economic growth has averaged about ...
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This paper describes the changing economic environments being experienced by Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries as they move from relatively controlled and closed economies, to more open and liberalized economies with wider regional trade arrangements, de ...
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This study examines the durations of unemployment and employment for those in Canada who experience some unemployment between 1972 and 1979. This analysis was carried out using the UIC-ROE data base developed from the administrative records of the Unemploy ...
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In this study we examine the unemployment experience of workers who became unemployed during the period 1972 through 1979 in the 19 regions across the country, a group that represents about 58 per cent of the Canadian labour force. The employment/unemploym ...
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This study examines the employment experience of workers in Canada who were unemployed at some point during the period 1972 through 1979. The employment-unemployment experience of workers over this eight-year period was derived from a data base constructed ...
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This paper provides an overview of labour adjustments situations in Canada, the incentives to adjust from the perspective of the workers and the costs and benefits to the economy of different labour adjustment problems and policies. Conceptual models and e ...
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The analysis of the relationship of the average durations of employment and unemployment spells across labor force participants over an extended period is used to study the long-run structure of unemployment. Based on this relationship, how the unemploymen ...
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The issues which confront government in developed countries like Canada concerning the choice between trade or protection are related to concerns in three distinct, yet inter-connected areas, namely: international development, national industrial developme ...
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The issues which confront governments concerning the choice between trade or protection are related to three distinct yet inter- connected policy problems, namely: international trade policy, national industrial development policy, and political platform p ...
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HID has been active in the area of tax reform for the past twenty years. This work began in 1975, with a study of mineral taxation in Bolivia and has continued through projects in a wide range of countries including: Indonesia ( mining taxation, 1976-1997, ...
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This study concentrates on the adjustment costs of laying off workers from firm which are forced to reduce production and employment. Both the private income losses to the displaced workers and the cost to the economy of labour displacement are examined. T ...
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While employment policy in Canada has on specific occasions undertaken varied tasks, three principal objectives have consistently been part of the Canadian Government’s policy over the past three decades. First, there has been a commitment to maintaining a ...
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This study undertakes a broad-based evaluation of public expenditures in
Belize in order to identify ways of enhancing economic and social gains from
public services. It reviews the budgeting and financial management systems
used to translate public fin ...
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