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Spring Lecture Series, John Visser Jun 1983

Spring Lecture Series, John Visser

Pro Rege

No abstract provided.


Instability Of Government Revenue And Expenditure In Less Developed Countries, David Lim May 1983

Instability Of Government Revenue And Expenditure In Less Developed Countries, David Lim

Support & Other Units (THEi)

The governments of most less developed countries (LDCs) depend basically on their tax and non-tax revenues to finance their expenditure programmes. Unless countervailing action is taken, instability in government revenue will result in instability in government expenditure. The latter can add considerably to the complexity of fiscal management, which may then render ineffective development planning.1 It can also reduce business confidence and lead to the precautionary discounting of prospective investment returns and so a lowering of the investment level. This note does not attempt to verify the claim that expenditure instability has adverse effects on economic growth. Its aim is …


Recent Developments In Nigeria's Oil Industry And Their Implications For Government Finance, Petroleum Studies Office Research Department Mar 1983

Recent Developments In Nigeria's Oil Industry And Their Implications For Government Finance, Petroleum Studies Office Research Department

Economic and Financial Review

This brief review has focused on the movements of oil prices, production and exports in the 1979-82 period, highlighting the implications of such movements for Federal Government revenue and expenditure.


Statistical Section (March 1983), Central Bank Of Nigeria Cbn Mar 1983

Statistical Section (March 1983), Central Bank Of Nigeria Cbn

Economic and Financial Review

This is a statistical representation of economic activities in Nigeria during the first quarter of 1983


Replacing The U.S. Income Tax With A Progressive Consumption Tax : A Sequenced General Equilibrium Approach, Don Fullerton, John B. Shoven, John Whalley Jan 1983

Replacing The U.S. Income Tax With A Progressive Consumption Tax : A Sequenced General Equilibrium Approach, Don Fullerton, John B. Shoven, John Whalley

Don Fullerton

This paper examines the welfare consequences of changing the current U.S. income tax system to a progressive consumption tax. We compute a sequence of single period equilibria in which savings decisions depend on the expected future return to capital. In the presence of existing income taxes, the U.S. economy is assumed to lie on a balanced growth path. With the change to a consumption tax, individuals save more and initially consume less. As the capital stock grows, consumption eventually overtakes that of the original path, and the economy approaches the new balanced growth path with higher consumption and a greater …


Migration With A Composite Amenity: The Role Of Rents, Philip E. Graves Jan 1983

Migration With A Composite Amenity: The Role Of Rents, Philip E. Graves

PHILIP E GRAVES

There is no abstract for this work.


Migration And Job Change: A Multinomial Logit Approach (Jue 1983), Peter D. Linneman, Philip E. Graves Jan 1983

Migration And Job Change: A Multinomial Logit Approach (Jue 1983), Peter D. Linneman, Philip E. Graves

PHILIP E GRAVES

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Government Recurrent Expenditure And Economic Growth In Less Developed Countries, David Lim Jan 1983

Government Recurrent Expenditure And Economic Growth In Less Developed Countries, David Lim

Support & Other Units (THEi)

There is not much support in less developed countries for the hypothesis that recurrent government expenditure is seen as consumption and hence more dispensable than capital expenditure. There is little evidence of a secular decline in recurrent expenditure for a group of 54 less developed countries over the period 1965–1973, nor is there strong evidence of greater instability in recurrent expenditure.


Controlling The Uncontrollables: An Examination Of The Capacity Of Congress To Reduce Government Expenditures For Entitlements, David Lawrence Horne Jan 1983

Controlling The Uncontrollables: An Examination Of The Capacity Of Congress To Reduce Government Expenditures For Entitlements, David Lawrence Horne

Theses Digitization Project

No abstract provided.


Nota Sobre Equidad Y Explotación En El Comercio Internacional, Ferran Sancho, Antonio Manresa Dec 1982

Nota Sobre Equidad Y Explotación En El Comercio Internacional, Ferran Sancho, Antonio Manresa

Ferran Sancho

We take on the 'unequal exchange' concept from a formal viewpoint and show that differences in endowments, rather than wage differences, are behind the phenomenon. We also show that egalitarian allocations are efficient.