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Author: Anthony Barnes Atkinson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1992-10
Total Pages: 468
ISBN-13: 9780521438827
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book, first published in 1992, examines the distribution of income under Communism in Eastern Europe, and its implications for economic transformation.
Author: Anthony Barnes Atkinson
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Published: 1992
Total Pages: 44
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis paper examines the distribution of household incomes in Eastern Europe before the economic transformation that began in 1990. Was there less inequality in these countries under Communism than in Western economies? Many people appear to believe that no such data exist for Eastern Europe. Such common impressions are, however, largely based on the situation in the former Soviet Union, and the position in the Central European countries has been quite different. The first aim of the paper is to present the evidence about the distribution of income in Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland and the former USSR in the mid-1980s and to make a comparison with the UK. The findings confirm that income inequality in Czechoslovakia is substantially less than in the UK. At the same time, our results bring out the differences within Eastern Europe. The distribution for Hungary appears relatively close to that in Czechoslovakia, but the Lorenz curves for these two countries lie comfortably inside those for Poland and the former USSR. In drawing attention to the availability of evidence on income inequality in Eastern Europe, we are not suggesting that such data are perfect. The household surveys, particularly that in the former USSR, are subject to a number of qualifications. The limitations of the evidence are the subject of the fourth section of the paper.
Author: François Bourguignon
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 9780415269483
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume is a comprehensive collection of critical essays on The Taming of the Shrew, and includes extensive discussions of the play's various printed versions and its theatrical productions. Aspinall has included only those essays that offer the most influential and controversial arguments surrounding the play. The issues discussed include gender, authority, female autonomy and unruliness, courtship and marriage, language and speech, and performance and theatricality.
Author: Georg Fischer
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2020-10-01
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ISBN-13: 0197545726
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEuropean integration is focused on improving economic performance and increasing income levels in nations across the European Union. Political leaders and the media often use income trends to measure this progress, with inequality moving more and more to the forefront of these conversations. In this book, contributing authors focus on the economies within the EU, its member countries, and other European countries closely associated with the EU. The book includes an overview of economic and social trends, using long-term processes of European integration as a way to frame the discussions. Georg Fischer, Robert Strauss, and their contributors focus on explaining how policy makers and the media focus on national trends to measure progress among the nations in Europe. They make a specific point to look at the EU as an economic and political entity whose parts are closely interlinked rather than as a conglomerate of individual countries. The contributors consider the commonalities and differences between various institutions and policies, explaining how a decision in one country might impact another. Europe's Income, Wealth, Consumption, and Inequality offers a novel approach to the analysis of social and economic trends, and the resulting book identifies major policy challenges applicable in the EU and beyond.
Author: Branko Milanovi?
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780821339947
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWorld Bank Technical Paper No. 394. Joint Forest Management (JFM) has emerged as an important intervention in the management of Indias forest resources. This report sets out an analytical method for examining the costs and benefits of JFM arrangements. Two pilot case studies in which the method was used demonstrate interesting outcomes regarding incentives for various groups to participate. The main objective of this study is to develop a better understanding of the incentives for communities to participate in JFM.
Author: Jan Svejnar
Publisher: Academic Press
Published: 2013-10-22
Total Pages: 463
ISBN-13: 1483289230
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Czech Republic and Economic Transition in Eastern Europe is the first in-depth, comparative analysis of the Czech Republic's economic transition after the fall of the Communist bloc. Edited by Jan Svejnar,a principal architect of the Czech economic transformation and Economic Advisor to President Vaclav Havel, the book poses important questions about the Republic and its partners in Central and Eastern Europe. The thirty-five essayists describe the country's macroeconomic performance; its development of capital markets; the structure and performance of its industries; its unemployment, household behavior, and income distribution; and the environmental and health issues it faces.In this in-depth, comparative analysis of the Czech Republic's economic transition, an international team of thirty-five economists examine the Republic and its partners in Central and Eastern Europe. Important questions and issues permeate the essays. For example, prior to 1939 the Czech Republic possessed the most advanced economy in the region; is it capable of reestablishing its dominance? Relative to its neighbors, the Republic ranks especially high on some transition-related performance indicators but low on others. What economic effects are related to the 1993 dissolution of the Czech and Slovak governments? And what can be learned by comparing the economic outcomes of two countries that shared legal and institutional frameworks? Data describe the country's macroeconomic performance; its development of capital markets; the structure and performance of its industries; its unemployment, household behavior, and income distribution; and the environmental and health issues facing it. Its most important contributions are its clarifications of the transition process.The authors included in Transforming Czechoslovakia combine the best available data and techniques of economic analysis to assess the replacement of the inefficient but internally consistent central planning system with a more efficient market system. These authors, among whom are central European economic analysts, senior U.S. economists, and Czechoslovakian professors and economic researchers, discuss the country's macroeconomic performance; its development of capital markets; the structure and performance of its industries; its unemployment, household behavior, and income distribution; and the environmental and health issues facing it. The essays vary between presentations of history and policy and technical examinations of data. Together they offer the most comprehensive and detailed assessment of the country's economic transformation in print.This book is important because its essayists compile results and reach conclusions that are broad and credible. The empirical data were gathered on the ground and have been subjected to advanced methodologies, including game theory, industrial organization, and Granger-Sims causality.
Author: Hilary Appel
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2011-07-28
Total Pages: 259
ISBN-13: 0472027514
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“This is the first book to systematically examine the variation in policies of Eastern European countries. There is a theoretical contribution to understandings of variation in tax policies, but just as impressive is the in-depth empirical analysis and in particular the data from interviews with key players in the process.” —Yoshiko Herrera, University of Wisconsin-Madison Post-Communist tax reform, like institutional reform in other areas of the post-Communist transition, holds tremendous material consequences for different groups in society. Consequently, one would expect the allocation of resources and the distribution of the financial burden of that allocation to be highly sensitive to domestic politics. Indeed the political stakes should be especially high since post-Communist tax reform requires not merely a simple adjustment at the margin, but the fundamental reallocation of the responsibility for government revenue. In Eastern Europe, however, important areas of tax policy do not reflect traditional domestic variables (e.g., interest groups and partisanship) so much as the international imperatives associated with regional and global economic integration. In Tax Politics in Eastern Europe, Hilary Appel analyzes the domestic and international factors that drive tax policy. She begins with a review of the greatest challenges in the initial creation of the capitalist tax systems in former Communist states and then turns to the evolution of specific forms of taxation in order to gauge the relative impact of domestic politics on tax policy. Appel concludes that, although some tax areas, such as personal income taxes, remain politicized, most other taxes, such as corporate income taxes and all forms of consumption taxes, have been less subject to domestic political pressures because of powerful constraints resulting from regional and global economic integration.
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2010-11-11
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9004216480
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSince the dramatic events in 1989 and 1990, Central and Eastern Europeans have been engaged in a process of democratization and liberalization which are transforming their societies fundamentally. The rapid transformation processes appear to be very differential and the particular patterns are complex to interpret and understand. This volume elaborates on a number of issues that seem particular important for the people in Central and Eastern Europe: the development and working of democracy, the public support for, legitimacy and efficacy of democracy and the free market economy, and of course the stability of the newly established political culture.
Author: Morgan Reynolds
Publisher: Academic Press
Published: 2013-09-24
Total Pages: 168
ISBN-13: 1483277607
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPublic Expenditures, Taxes, and the Distribution of Income: The United States, 1950, 1961, 1970 explores income inequality over time to a more comprehensive than usual definition of income, one that includes the benefits and burdens of government expenditures and taxes at all levels. The book provides a discussion of topics on the impact of income redistribution on the fiscal comparisons of final income distributions; and experimental results involving artificial government budgets. The book will be interesting to economists.
Author: Lucas Chancel
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2022-11
Total Pages: 267
ISBN-13: 0674273567
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWorld Inequality Report 2022 is the most authoritative and comprehensive account of global trends in inequality, providing cutting-edge information about income and wealth inequality and also pioneering data about the history of inequality, gender inequality, environmental inequalities, and trends in international tax reform and redistribution.
