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"Measuring Fiscal Needs: Japan's Experiences" [PDF]
The Local Allocation Tax (LAT) plays important role in fiscal equalization in Japan. The purpose of this paper is twofold: reviewing the key themes and issues of the LAT; and considering package of reforms designed to revitalize Japan's fiscal ...
Nobuki Mochida
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Fruit‐quality tradeoffs generate asymmetry in plant reliance on mutualistic frugivores
Oikos, EarlyView.Seed dispersal is a fundamental ecological process influencing the evolution of plant life‐history strategies. In fleshy‐fruited plants dispersed by mutualistic frugivores, variation in fruit traits among closely related species may shape the temporal and spatial dynamics of dispersal events critical to population success.
João Vitor S. Messeder, Tomás A. Carlo
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Fiscal equalization and regions' (un)willingness-to-tax: Evidence from Germany [PDF]
Under cooperative federalism, when an identical tax tariff applies to all regions of a federation, usually redistribution rules are implemented to smooth fiscal differences.
Jochimsen, Beate +2 more
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Unpacking the task of synthesis when weaving knowledge systems for biodiversity assessments
People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract The pivot towards evidence‐based conservation since 2000 has inspired global environmental assessments to gather evidence across multiple knowledge systems, including through co‐production with Indigenous Peoples and local communities. Knowledge co‐production is highlighted as a strategy for transformative change towards a just future that ...
Maria Tengö +7 more
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On the states' behavior with equalization grants [PDF]
This paper discusses how the state government's behavior is affected when the so-called Representative Tax System (RTS) equalization scheme is implemented.
Diego Martínez-López
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Pest Management Science, EarlyView.Phenotypic and transcriptional responses to imidacloprid and isocycloseram were examined across U.S. populations of the Colorado potato beetle, showing evidence of phenotypic cross‐resistance alongside population‐level variation in detoxification gene expression.
Emma E. Terris +6 more
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Fiscal federalism in Germany: Stabilization and redistribution before and after unification [PDF]
We provide empirical estimates of the risk-sharing and redistributive properties of the German federal fiscal system based on data from 1970 until 2006, with special attention to the effects of German unification. We find that tax revenue sharing between
von Hagen, Jürgen, Hepp, Ralf
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Fiscal Equalization in the System of Financial Support of Ukraine’s Regions: the Current State and Vector of Development [PDF]
Problemi Ekonomiki, 2016 The peculiarities in the functioning of the current system of inter-budget relations in Ukraine from the perspective of its impact on the regional development have been disclosed.
Voznyak Halyna V.
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Evaluating the Efficiency and Equity of Federal Fiscal Equalization [PDF]
In theory, federal transfers that make household location decisions efficient should ignore local cost differences, subsidize positive externalities, and offset differences in federal-tax payments and local taxes levied on non-residents, but not local ...
David Albouy
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Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, EarlyView.This study presents a UAV‐based framework that integrates deep learning‐based super‐resolution reconstruction and an enhanced YOLO detector to improve centimetre‐scale benthic organism monitoring. Using hermit crabs in Lake Hamana, a coastal lagoon in Japan, as a case study, the method substantially enhanced small‐object detection performance ...
Fan Zhao +10 more
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