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Assessment of Extreme Temperature to Fiscal Pressure in China

Global Environmental Change
Zhongfei Chen, Fanglin Chen, Zhang xin
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Fiscal Pressure?

Urban Affairs Quarterly, 1992
Several states and cities have developed policies designed to attract retirees, hoping to position their communities as future homes for the retirement years of high-spending, low-service-consuming elders. In this article, attention is focused on issues of public expenditures.
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Uncompensated Care: Hospitals' Responses To Fiscal Pressures

Health Affairs, 1995
This Data Watch examines the impact of hospital competition, the Medicare prospective payment system (PPS), and Medi-Cal selective contracting on the provision of uncompensated care by private hospitals in California during 1980-1989. It finds that hospitals subject to more intense competition and greater fiscal pressure from Medicare and Medi-Cal ...
Mann, Joyce., Melnick, Glenn., Bamezai, Anil., Zwanziger, Jack.   +3 more
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Productivity and fiscal pressure

International Journal of Public Administration, 1985
Under the pressure of fiscal crises, elected officials and their constituents are demanding that productivity improvement be institutionalized in government. Pressured public administration is responding with innovations ranging across measurement and auditing, joint labor-management cooperation, incentives tied to performance, training, information ...
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FISCAL PRESSURE, TAX COMPETITION, AND THE INTRODUCTION OF STATE LOTTERIES [PDF]

National Tax Journal, 1993
This paper uses discrete-time hazard function estimation methods to examine the factors that affect the probability that a state will enact a lottery, where the probability is assumed to depend upo...
Alm, James, McKee, Michael J., Skidmore, Mark   +2 more
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Pressures to Reform and the Impact of the Fiscal Crisis

2020
This chapter considers the role of external pressures vis a vis administrative reforms. To what extent does the transnationalization of policy frames through expert knowledge and cross-national comparisons correspond to the processes of domestication? Is there a type of policy learning that is observable? This chapter analyses the guidance given by the
Sabrina Cavatorto, Antonio La Spina
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Overcrowding and Fiscal Pressures in Emergency Medicine

Hospital Topics, 2002
Emergency departments in America are disappearing at an alarming rate. Those that remain face a daily ordeal of overcrowding and budgetary shortfalls. The reasons for this phenomenon include changes in reimbursement rates by managed care organizations, the nationwide reduction of hospital beds, the nursing shortage, a more acute patient mix, and a ...
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Peer Pressure and Fiscal Rules

2010
In a seminal contribution on fair wages and unemployment, Akerlof (1980) showed that social norms can persist, even when costly to follow for individuals, if disobedience entails a loss of reputation. This chapter extends to public behaviour the argument developed by Akerlof.
Jean-Paul Fitoussi, Francesco Saraceno
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Beijing will face fiscal policy pressures

Emerald Expert Briefings, 2023
Headline CHINA: Beijing will face fiscal policy pressures
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Taxation and fiscal pressure [PDF]

Finance - Challenges of the Future, 2009
The article makes reference to the concept of taxation and of fiscal pressure, to its ways of manifestation on account of the level of organization where it is found, of the sphere of tax deductions, of the effective or predicted character. A comparative study on fiscal pressure has been conducted in the member states of the European Union and in ...
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