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| In 2004 the Australian Government asked the Productivity Commission to look at the impact on the economy and the community of NCP and related reforms and for areas which offer opportunities for significant gains. The Commission found that the benefits of NCP have greatly outweighed the costs. The benefits have flowed to both low and high income earners, and to country as well as city Australia. The Commission outlines how Australias ageing population and other international and domestic pressures necessitate further actions to raise productivity and sustainability. The Commission proposes a wide-ranging agenda for nationally coordinated reform, particularly in the areas of energy and water, freight transport, greenhouse gas abatement and consumer... |
| Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Public Economics. |
| Ano: 2005 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/31898 |
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| Kanbur, Ravi; Tuomala, Matti. |
| What explains the spectacular increases in inequality of disposable income in transitional economies of Central and Eastern Europe? There are at least two possible explanations. First, the pre-tax distribution of income became more unequal because of the shift to a market economy. Second, the degree of progressivity of the income tax system declined. But each of these factors is in turn determined by other structural changes associated with transition-notably, the decrease in public provision of key public goods, the decrease in non income tax revenue sources such as profits from public production, and perhaps a decline in society's inequality aversion. This paper develops a framework in which these different forces on inequality can be assessed. Using a... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: International Development; Public Economics. |
| Ano: 2002 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/7240 |
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| Harvey, Lynn R.. |
| Fire protection attempts to reduce the costs of fear, injury, death, uninsured property loss, and high fire insurance payments. Municipalities in protecting the health, safety, and welfare of the community have generally placed a high priority on providing fire protection with public revenues as one of the services to the residents. Local municipal officials face decisions on the allocation of financial resources. An expenditure for fire protection is a foregone opportunity for expenditure on parks for example. As growth occurs in a given area, local official must decide whether additional fire protection is needed, and if so, how should the protection be afforded? Should the local government unit start up their own department, purchase additional... |
| Tipo: Thesis or Dissertation |
Palavras-chave: Public Economics. |
| Ano: 1978 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/11071 |
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| Todd, Jessica E.; Leibtag, Ephraim S.; Penberthy, Corttney. |
| Although healthy foods can be affordable, if less healthy foods are cheaper, individuals may have an economic incentive to consume a less healthful diet. Using the Quarterly Food-at-Home Price Database, we explore whether a select set of healthy foods (whole grains, dark green vegetables, orange vegetables, whole fruit, skim and 1% milk, fruit juice, and bottled water) are more expensive than less healthy alternatives. We find that not all healthy foods are more expensive than less healthy alternatives; skim and 1% milk are less expensive than whole and 2% milk and bottled water is generally less expensive than carbonated nonalcoholic drinks. We also find considerable geographic variation in the relative price of healthy foods. This price variation may... |
| Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Quarterly Food-at-Home Price Database (QFAHPD); Healthy food; Price; Geographic variation; Agricultural and Food Policy; Consumer/Household Economics; Demand and Price Analysis; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Health Economics and Policy; Public Economics. |
| Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/117976 |
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| Wood, Richard. |
| The main purpose of this paper is to discuss aspects of taxation policy as it is applied to rural sector issues. The paper begins by reviewing the relevance of rural income volatility, and general trends in protection policy, for taxation policy design. Comments are included on the general appropriateness of concessional tax treatment and a description is provided of key taxation policy principles - equity, efficiency, certainty and administrability. The paper then illustrates how these taxation policy principles are taken into account during the policy advising process. Four case studies are used for this purpose: drought, water reform, horticulture and landcare. |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Public Economics. |
| Ano: 1995 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/12537 |
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| Schmit, Todd M.; Boisvert, Richard N.. |
| A hedonic cost function is used to isolate the operation and maintenance costs for water treatments. For small systems, costs are substantial for some technologies, but not for others. When regional differences in input costs are accounted for, small systems located in rural areas may have a cost advantage over similar systems closer to urban centers; however, costs of water treatment to meet Safe Drinking Water Act amendments may still be substantial. |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Public Economics. |
| Ano: 1997 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/31560 |
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| Stern, Nicholas. |
| n the last twenty years economics has created much of lasting value and real potential: it has been a very fertile period. But economics has also suffered from what I shall term „collective amnesia‟ covering whole areas of public policy. And on policy and the role of government it has, embarrassingly in my view, swayed with the political winds to the detriment of both our profession and to outcomes. Both the amnesia and the political bending have contributed to the economic crisis of the last year or two and to hostility towards the profession. My purpose here is first to lament the amnesia on theories of public policy in imperfect economies, in short the subject of public economics, to describe the bending of public policy analysis to political vogue, and... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Public Policy; Climate Change; Public Economics; H. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/55333 |
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| Whitacre, Brian E.. |
| This paper examines the shifting influence of household characteristics and telecommunications infrastructure on the residential broadband adoption decision for Oklahoma residents between 2003 and 2006. In particular, the spread of wired telecommunications infrastructure (namely cable Internet and Digital Subscriber Lines (DSL)) is examined, along with the effect that this diffusion has had on broadband access rates. The data indicates that the gap in broadband access rates between rural and urban areas has remained relatively constant over this period despite increased levels of cable and DSL throughout the state. In addition, an inter-temporal decomposition shows that the increasing levels of infrastructure are not the dominant cause of higher broadband... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Broadband; Internet; Temporal Diffusion; Public Economics; Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies; R11; O18; C1. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/6934 |
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