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Escaping the Under-Reform Trap [PDF]
Most former Soviet republics have fallen into an economic and political under-reform trap. An intrusive state imposes high tax rates and drives entrepreneurs into the unofficial economy, which further aggravates the pressure on official businessmen.
Anders ‰slund +2 more
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Public Administration, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The paper explores the gender dimensions of social equity and social equity budgeting (SEB) by investigating women's inclusion in local politics, budgeting and decision‐making in Bangladesh. Quotas for women representatives are reserved at each successive level of local government in Bangladesh, and their active participation in local politics
Md Salah Uddin Rajib +3 more
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تحقيقات جغرافيايی, 2016 The political geography of cities, as spatial phenomena, is shaped with respect to different factors like: commercial centers, wealthy countryside, poor neighborhoods, ghettos and slums.
Zahra Ahmadi Pour, Ghasem Karami
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Strategies for Survival in an Informal Economy: Illegalities of Zimbabwean Informal Cross Border Traders at Ports of Entries in Southern Africa. [PDF]
Int J Community Wellbeing, 2023 Dzawanda B, Matsa MM.
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Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT New governance models increasingly employ self‐regulation tools like pledges and nudges to achieve regulatory compliance. These approaches premise that voluntary compliance emerges from intrinsic motivation to cooperate rather than coercive measures. Central to their success is trust—both in government institutions and among citizens. However,
Libby Maman, Yuval Feldman, Tom Tyler
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International taxation sentiment and COVID-19 crisis. [PDF]
Res Int Bus Finance, 2022 Bai C, Duan Y, Liu C, Qiu L.
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Estimating the volume of the unofficial economy in selected economies
Financijska praksa, 1997 Siva ekonomija prisutna je u svim društvima bez obzira na njihovo društveno i političko uređenje, ali ipak između pojedinih društava postoje značajne razlike u njenom obliku i obujmu. Cvala je i u nacističkoj Njemačkoj, bila itekako razvijena u zemljama bivšeg komunističkog bloka, a gotovo daje svakim danom sve jača u razvijenim industrijskim državama.
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Fiscal Reform and its Firm-Level Effects in Eastern Europe and Central Asia [PDF]
This paper reports the first empirical evidence that fiscal reform efforts in transition countries have positive effects. Using the EBRD BEEPS I and II data, reported in 1999 and 2002, rigorous econometric models are estimated showing that the share of ...
John E. Anderson
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Contested Refugeeness in the Lavrio Kurdish Camp After the 2015 Reception Crisis in Greece
Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article explores the meanings of refugeeness among Kurdish residents of the self‐managed Lavrio refugee camp in Greece in the aftermath of the 2015 reception crisis. Focusing on how Kurdish camp residents make sense of their political identities and on how they distinguish themselves from those they call ‘non‐political refugees’, the ...
Filyra Vlastou‐Dimopoulou
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Informal and underground economy [PDF]
There is a widespread feeling that a substantial and increasing share of activities take place outside the official economy. This holds, in particular, for developing and transition but also for high income economies.
Bruno Frey, Friedrich Schneider
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