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How Big Is Your Share Of Government Debt?, Dean D. Croushore

Economics Faculty Publications

In evaluating the government's financial position, taxpayers need to account not only for its debt, but also for its ownership of tangible assets. Each taxpayer has a share of the government's net worth that is positive; however, the share was larger 10 years ago. While the real net debt tripled, this huge rise in government indebtedness generated no similar gain in government assets. Taxpayers will be paying interest on this debt with little hope of higher future returns from government assets to help pay it off. It is recommended that the government adopt a capital-budgeting system. This system would change …

The Determination Of The Training Needs, Nermine Magdy Atteya

Archived Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

An Evaluation Of Car-Ownership And Car-Usage Policies In Singapore, Sock-Yong Phang, Anthony Chin

Research Collection School Of Economics

Report presented to Parliament 2 January 1990 as part of Select Committee on Land Transportation Policy. Covers the transportation policies of Singapore from 1960s to 1980s. Analysis of car ownership policies, including PARF. Analysis of car usage policies.

Evaluating Corporate Average Fuel Economy Mandates: An Exploratory Cost-Benefit Analysis, Hans G. Schmeits

Masters Theses

Vehicle fuel economy has become the object of intense government regulation in the last two decades. In 1975, Congress legislated Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards for all new cars produced after the 1978 model year. Today, Corporate Average Fuel Economy regulations are being criticized as overly strict in an era of falling gasoline prices. This study provides an assessment of the costs and benefits of the controversial CAFE program and empirically analyzes its effects. The author concludes that the increase in fleet fuel economies, across the line, is approximately what one should have expected given the rise in real …

Alternative In Industrial Development By H. H. De Haan, New Delhi: Sage Publication, 1988., S N Chary

IIMB Management Review

This is the first volume in a series of studies sponsored under the Indo-Dutch Programme on Alternatives in Development, the programme being jointly implemented by ICSSR, New Delhi and IMWOO, The Hague. Essentially, the study presented in this volume is an evaluation of the main sugar technologies by means of economic analysis. It mostly confines itself to the evaluations and comparisons between the modern vacuum pan sulphitation (VPS) process, used in the Indian sugar mills, and the open pan sulphitation (OPS) process which is an intermediate technology and an alternative to the large-scale VPS Process.

Planning: New Imperative, Abid Hussain

IIMB Management Review

Planning must take note of the fact that while the economy is integrating, the indian polity is fragmenting and society is becoming more divisive. The fragmentation of polity and assertion of separate group or community identities are perhaps a part of an inescapable process. How this fragmentation and divisive aspects of society are to be managed in a national perspective, is an
the emerging challenge for planning.

                                                      The need right now is to stimulate further growth. Without higher growth, we will end up only redistributing poverty. Taking into account the growth performance of the Indian economy since 1980. It is …

Welfare Implications Of Hdb Policy On The Public Housing Price Gradient, Sock Yong Phang

Research Collection School Of Economics

In Singapore, extensive government intervention in the housing market has resulted in much deviation from assumptions made in the simple neoclassical urban models. The monocentric model of urban structure is extended to incorporate a subsidized public housing market in which the government-determined price gradient is flatter than the private housing price gradients. The propositionthat the utility of public housing households varies inversely with residential location distance from the CBD is empirically tested by estimating net returns to public housing using resale market data. It was found that net returns decreased with distance from the CBD.

Who Says Public Investment In Agricultural Research Doesn't Pay?, Stanley K. Seaver

Storrs Agricultural Experiment Station

No abstract provided.

The Effect Of Government Deficits On Consumption And Interest Rates: A Two Equation Approach, Dean D. Croushore

Economics Faculty Publications

Single-equation estimation of the consumption function often is used in testing the Ricardian equivalence theorem. This approach may be misleading, as effects on interest rates usually are ignored. This paper proposes simultaneous estimation of consumption and investment equations, with the interest rate serving to equilibrate the market. Five existing studies are replicated and subjected to sensitivity tests. The results show that the interest rate is important in the consumption function. The Ricardian equivalence theorem is tested, but the results are mixed.

Administrative Problems Facing Non-Governmental Organizations With Particular Reference To Egypt, Bernahu Bankashe Balaker

Archived Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Instructions For Using Crop Insure, Bart Wittnebel, Gerald Toland, Burton Pflueger

Economics Staff Paper Series (1969 - 2017)

This publication is intended to assist users of the CROP INSURE computer software developed by the American Association of Crop Insurers. Crop insurance will continue to be an important consideration for South Dakota agricultural producers. The decision to purchase crop insurance or find alternative ways to protect the crop production expenditure investment will have to be made by each individual producer. The economic considerations of this decision will vary by each producer, by crop, by field, and by yield history. The CROP INSURE computer software program is designed to assist in making this decision. These instructions were partly adopted from …

Welfare Workers As Surplus Population: A Useful Model?, Paula Dressel, Mike Sweat, Michelle Waters

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Analysts of organizational and employment issues in social welfare are in need of a more critical orientation for framing debate. We propose that an understanding of welfare workers as surplus population offers critical insights into a number of longstanding welfare concerns, including political coalitions, professional standards, and worker burnout. Empirical evidence is presented to undergird the credibility of the surplus population argument.

Government Financial Policy And Capital, Dean D. Croushore

Economics Faculty Publications

Economists have long been concerned about the best way to finance government deficits. Finding the proper fiscal policy and monetary policy mix is a crucial decision. When government debt grows too fast, interest rates rise and capital is crowded out. If the money growth rate is excessive, inflation occurs.

The study of this issue at the theoretical level requires a model which incorporates the following features: (1) modeling money and bonds as endogenous financial assets, whose rates of return are determined in general equilibrium, (2) examination of the utility maxi mization decisions of individuals, so that welfare analysis of alternative …

Comparison Of Human Capital And Structural Models Of The Distribution Of Earnings: Evidence From Connecticut, A, Bradford F. Mills, Boris E. Bravo-Ureta

Storrs Agricultural Experiment Station

No abstract provided.

On The Social Wage, Anwar Shaikh Phd

Archives of Anwar Shaikh

This collection includes:

• On the “social wage”: Critiquing Bowles and Gintis and providing alternative measures of social welfare expenditures and taxes [Paper]. Shaikh, A. (1984, May). Unpublished manuscript.

• Figure 5.5—Social wage comparisons: Showing the social wage as a percentage of total wages for the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia [Chart for Economics 205]. Shaikh, A. (1987, April). Unpublished manuscript.

An Appraisal Of Public Sector Financing Of Agricultural Development In Africa With Particular Reference To Nigeria, J. O. Osakwe, M. O. Ojo

Economic and Financial Review

The paper discusses, largely using Nigeria as a case study, three sets of issues relating to public sector role in agricultural financing. First, it takes an overview of the agricultural situation in African countries in general and in Nigeria in particular in the last twenty years and suggests the critical factors that should guide government activities for agricultural financing in the light of the general structure of agricultural production. Second, it identifies the types and magnitudes of government assistance in agricultural financing in Nigeria and finally it discusses some of the main problems surrounding the efforts of the government in …

Price Leve L- Wages, Anwar Shaikh Phd

Archives of Anwar Shaikh

This folder includes:
Handwritten note cards titled:

• CRITIQUE of Morishima’s "Marx’s Economics"
• CAPITAL, REVENUE + PRICE-VALUE DEVIATIONS
• Price of Production and Value (multi-card set, pp. 3–8, with red underlines)
• Victor Perlo (see photostat) (1968)
• Bortkiewicz Critique (3/4/78)
• DEFINITION OF SURPLUS-VALUE AS AN INCREMENT OVER TOTAL ADVANCED CAPITAL (PROFIT)
• PRICE-VALUE DEVIATIONS and SURPLUS VALUE
• VALUE VARIATIONS DUE TO TECHNICAL CHANGE (multi-card set, with red underlines)
• Capitalist Cost-Price & Social Cost = Value (written in blue ink, with red annotations)
• Complete Mechanization & Capitalist Reproduction (1/15/85)
• Marx on Competition (1847) (6/86; multi-card set written in blue ink, with some red underlines and …

An Assessment Of The Education Sector In The Five- Year Plan For Economic And Social Development [Manuscript] : 1982/83-1986/87, Adel S F Ishac

Archived Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Price Value, Anwar Shaikh Phd

Archives of Anwar Shaikh

This folder includes:
Handwritten note cards titled:

• Baumol: What Marx “Really” Meant on the Transformation Problem (March 1973 draft), 3 numbered pages front and back
• Prices of Production as Modified Values
• Price and Value
• Market Prices and Abstract Prices and Values (written in blue ink)
• Rent & Absolute Prices
• Loans and Taxes (with some text in red ink)
• Government Deficits & Surplus Value (9/6/84)
• Two Senses of Socially Necessary Labor-Time (& Market Value) (5/81)
• Two Senses of Socially Necessary Labor Time
• TWO SENSES TO SOC. NECESSARY (4/20/77), written in blue ink, pp. 1b–3b
• Two Senses to Soc. Necessary (4/20/77), written …

Intertemporal Extraction Of Mineral Resources Under Variable Rate Taxes, Robert F. Conrad, Bryce Hool

Research Collection School Of Economics

Variable-rate taxes are being applied with increasing frequency in the US and other countries. However, their effects typically go beyond those that have motivated their use. The formulation of mineral tax policy should take into account the complete list of consequences.-from Authors

Limitations Of Monetary (And Fiscal) Policy In An Age Of Financial Instability, Hyman P. Minsky Ph.D.

Hyman P. Minsky Archive

Prepared for the Conference on Streams of Economic Thought, held in Trieste, Udine, Italy, 1-3 September, 1984. The main paper is the published work, the second paper here is the original with Minsky's extensive editorial rewritings.

Social Wage, Anwar Shaikh Phd

Archives of Anwar Shaikh

This collection includes.

• Anwar Shaikh. (1984, May). On the “social wage” (Unpublished manuscript). Department of Economics, The New School for Social Research, New York, NY.

Spring Lecture Series, John Visser

Pro Rege

No abstract provided.

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

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

Economic and Financial Review

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

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.

Resource Taxation With Heterogeneous Quality And Endogenous Reserves, Robert F. Conrad, Bryce Hool

Research Collection School Of Economics

This paper analyzes the impact of mining taxation on the intertemporal extraction profile for a heterogeneous ore body. The extraction profile specifies both quantities and qualities extracted in each period. Total extraction is thus endogenously determined. The taxes explicitly considered are severance taxes (ad valorem or per unit; on metal or on ore), property taxes, and profits taxes (with depletion allowance). The intertemporal framework integrates economic and geological factors, generating new results on extraction distortions and providing qualification or reconciliation of previous diverse results in this area.

Taxpayers Rights Amendment: A Sequel To Dakota Proposition?, Philip Favero

Economics Staff Paper Series (1969 - 2017)

During their campaign against Dakota Proposition, some of the opponents to that proposed constitutional amendment indicated their interest in a substitute measure to limit taxes in South Dakota. The substitute would involve, they stated, tying South Dakota taxes to the rate of inflation. An example of this kind of measure know as the Taxpayer's Rights Amendment" has been written and may be presented as a petition to change the South Dakota Constitution in a future general election. This Staff Paper includes a brief introductory analysis of the "Taxpayer's Rights Amendment." Suggestions for future research are also offered should the proposed …