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Author: K. Widerquist
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012-02-29
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780230112070
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContributors discuss the Alaska Permanent Fund (APF) and Permanent Fund Dividend (PFD) as a model both for resource policy and for social policy. This book explores whether other states, nations, or regions would benefit from an Alaskan-style dividend. The book also looks at possible ways that the model might be altered and improved.
Author: K. Widerquist
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2012-02-14
Total Pages: 445
ISBN-13: 1137015020
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContributors discuss the Alaska Permanent Fund (APF) and Permanent Fund Dividend (PFD) as a model both for resource policy and for social policy. This book explores whether other states, nations, or regions would benefit from an Alaskan-style dividend. The book also looks at possible ways that the model might be altered and improved.
Author: Todd Moss
Publisher: CGD Books
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 146
ISBN-13: 1933286709
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReliance on natural resource revenues, particularly oil, is often associated with bad governance, corruption, and poverty. Worried about the effect of oil on Alaska, Governor Jay Hammond had a simple yet revolutionary idea: let citizens have a direct stake. The Governor's Solution features his first-hand account that describes, with brutal honesty and piercing humour, the birth of the Alaska Permanent Fund dividend, which has been paid to each resident every year since 1982. Thirty years later, Hammond's vision is still influencing oil policies throughout the world. This reader, part of the Center for Global Development's Oil-to-Cash initiative, includes recent scholarly work examining Alaska's experience and how other oil-rich societies, particularly Iraq, might apply some of the lessons. It is as a powerful reminder that the combination of new ideas and determined individuals can make a tremendous difference --even in issues as seemingly complex and intractable as fighting the oil curse.
Author: Ted G. Eschenbach
Publisher:
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 272
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKReports on a long-range forecast of Alaska's economic development using predictions made by a panel of over one hundred Alaskan experts, using the Delphi forecasting method.
Author: Peter Barnes
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Published: 2014-08-04
Total Pages: 175
ISBN-13: 1626562164
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPeter Barnes argues that because of globalization, automation, and winner-take-all capitalism, there won’t be enough high-paying jobs to sustain America’s middle class in the future. Therefore, to survive economically, our middle class needs—and deserves—a supplementary source of nonlabor income. To meet this need, Barnes proposes to give every American a share of the wealth we own together— starting with our air and financial infrastructure. These shares would pay dividends of several thousand dollars per year—money that wouldn’t be welfare or wealth redistribution but legitimate property income.
Author: Alaska Legislative Affairs Agency
Publisher:
Published: 2013
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ISBN-13: 9781304117380
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: State of Alaska
Publisher: University of Alaska Press
Published: 2020-05-01
Total Pages: 96
ISBN-13: 1602234108
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Alaska Constitution, ratified by the people in 1956, became operative with the proclamation of statehood on January 3, 1959. The constitution was drafted by fifty-five delegates who convened at the University of Alaska to determine the authority vested in the state legislature, executive, judiciary, and other functions of government. This conveniently sized new edition will make the Alaska State Constitution accessible to all.
Author: Libby Roderick
Publisher: University of Alaska Press
Published: 2010-07-15
Total Pages: 114
ISBN-13: 1602230927
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMaking up more than ten percent of Alaska's population, Native Alaskans are the state's largest minority group. Yet most non-Native Alaskans know surprisingly little about the histories and cultures of their indigenous neighbors, or about the important issues they face. This concise book compiles frequently asked questions and provides informative and accessible responses that shed light on some common misconceptions. With responses composed by scholars within the represented communities and reviewed by a panel of experts, this easy-to-read compendium aims to facilitate a deeper exploration and richer discussion of the complex and compelling issues that are part of Alaska Native life today.
Author: Eyene Okpanachi
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2021-08-13
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 3030782514
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book aims to foster a better understanding of the particular challenges faced by resource-dependent countries or jurisdictions in managing their resource revenues through natural resource funds (NRFs). It explores the varieties of natural resource management strategies as dictated primarily by domestic politics, and how the potential negative distributional consequences of resource wealth management (the resource curse) may add political dimensions and potential conflicts to decisions about NRFs in ways that other sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) do not experience. By bridging the existing academic and practical knowledge gap arising from the limited attention given to the domestic politics of NRFs and state-society relations, this edited book is a valuable resource for academics, policymakers, and civil society actors in resource-driven economies and especially those interested in learning from comparative experiences of natural resource wealth management through NRFs.
Author: Todd Moss
Publisher: CGD Books
Published: 2015-06-10
Total Pages: 190
ISBN-13: 1933286695
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOil to Cash explores one option to help countries with new oil revenue avoid the so-called resource curse: just give the money directly to citizens. A universal, transparent, and regular cash transfer would not only provide a concrete benefit to regular people, but would also create powerful incentives for citizens to hold their government accountable. Oil to Cash details how and where this idea could work and how policymakers can learn from the experiences with cash transfers in places like Mexico, Mongolia, and Alaska.
