The distributional impact of reforms in the housing and communal sector in Russia
This paper originally appeared as a Master Thesis at NES in 2001 as a part of the project "Evaluation of Tax Benefit Reforms", which was carried out within the program "Russian Economic and Political Institutions in Transitions" generously sponsored by Ford Foundation, National Training Foundation, World Bank, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. I am deeply indebted to the project Anthony Shorrocks (NES, UNU/WIDER) and Evsey Gurvich (Ministry of Finance of the RF, Economic Expert Group) for their great contribution to this research.
Microsimulation modelling of personal taxation and social security benefits in the Czech Republic
Microsimulation modelling is now established in many countries as a valuable tool for the evaluation of taxation and social policy. In the United Kingdom both government departments and independent research organisations—such as the Institute for Fiscal Studies in London, and the Microsimulation Unit at the Department of Applied Economics at Cambridge University—have developed microsimulation models of the UK tax and benefit system. As a result, these models now have a very wide use in public policy debate.
Convergence Anatomization of Aquaculture Production in Leading Fish-Producing Countries During the Period of 1997-2013
Growth and national importance of aquaculture production is empirically assessed as an important indicator of development. The present article aims to test whether the major aquaculture producing countries of the world are converging over time. The authors have applied the absolute and conditional beta convergence and sigma convergence approaches on the data of FAO for the period 1997-2013. The results show that there is an absolute beta convergence and sigma convergence among 25 major aquaculture producing countries; negative sign of coefficient of conditional beta convergence with per capita income is also noticed. It implies, the growth rates of aquaculture for developed nations are declining with rise in per capita income and backward fish-intensive countries are catching up with the giant producers like China and India. The cross-country variations are also going down which means that the countries' development gaps are getting narrowed by means of growth of aquaculture resources.