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Monday, October 29, 2007

FRANCE: ECONOMIC FORECAST

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The Economist highlighted the economic data on France ( link ). The forecast seems stable with a bulk of structural frictions such as the re...
Sunday, October 28, 2007

NORWAY'S OIL SAVINGS AND PETROLEUM FUND

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More than a year ago, I noticed an article written by Stefan Karlsson entitled "Norway's National Day" where the author expl...

PRO-GROWTH TAX REFORM IN NEW ZEALAND

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New Zealand officially moves toward a rigorous tax reform by removing the impediments to businesses and companies expanding abroad and compe...
Tuesday, October 23, 2007

POLAND: REFORM OR DIE

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In Poland, the liberal Civic Platform won the very recent elections by a narrow margin ahead of socially conservative Law and Justice ( here...
Monday, October 22, 2007

POLITICAL TNT

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Drugi dom , a Slovenian political blog, published a post in which the author discredited the previous post I wrote on the state of religiou...
Sunday, October 21, 2007

CANADA: CUTTING TAXES TO BOOST ECONOMIC SOVEREIGNITY

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There is a good news coming from Canada. When Liberal Party was in power, it slashed the federal corporate tax rate from 28 percent to 19 pe...
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NEW JERSEY AND NEW YORK HAVE THE HIGHEST PROPERTY TAXES

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An article at MSN's Real Estate denotes the argument that New York and New Jersey have the highest property tax burden due to approximat...

AUSTRALIA - TAX HAVEN?

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Here is an article from The Age describing the systemic intentions to turn Australia into fund management tax haven. As a jurisdiction wit...

ROMANIA INTRODUCES PRIVATE RETIREMENT ACCOUNTS (PRA's)

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Romania has recently joined a growing list of nations that have switched from tax-funded state budget retirement system towards private pens...
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R&D AND INNOVATION

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"R&D is like an ice-hockey game, If you bring on young players and don't give an opportunity to play, you lose them to the US....
Saturday, October 20, 2007

FREE ONLINE ECONOMICS TEXTBOOKS

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Here is a list of textbooks on economics availible online. The books contain a high degree of quality and valuable theoretical as well as a...
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Tuesday, October 16, 2007

FREE TRADE, NOT FOREIGN AID

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There is an innumerable evidence showing the devastating impact of foreign aid on the economic development of countries in the third world. ...
Monday, October 15, 2007

NOBEL PRIZE IN ECONOMICS 2007

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This year's Nobel prize in economics jointly goes to Leonid Hurwicz of the University of Minnesota, Eric S. Maskin of the Princeton...
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SOVEREIGN FUNDS IN EMERGING MARKETS

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Standard Chartered predicts the great controversy may be bubbled by the most secretive sovereign funds in emerging markets. The reports sugg...
Sunday, October 14, 2007

UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS CAUSE A RISE IN UNEMPLOYMENT

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A new study by Roope Uusitalo and Jouko Verho confirmed the well-known empirical facts regarding the unemployment and unemployment benefits ...
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HONG KONG: 16 PERCENT CORPORATE AND PERSONAL INCOME TAX IS TOO HIGH

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Hong Kong's leader Donald Tsang recently announced a personal and corporate tax cut to 15 percent and 16,5 percent to boost growth, inve...

BUSINESS COMPETITIVENESS AND THE ROLE OF TAXES

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The Tax Foundation presented the 2008 version of the State Business Tax Climate . The research is a valuable tool in comparing the level of ...
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Saturday, October 13, 2007

IRELAND: ROBUST GROWTH AND PROPERTY MARKET ANTICIPATION

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In a decade, Ireland's property prices grew rapidly together with a robust growth of income, unemployment and population, the source of ...

SWEDISH LESSONS ON SCHOOL CHOICE

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Marek Hlavac , a visiting fellow at the Adam Smith Institute proposes that if British prime minister Gordon Brown really wants to enforce a...
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Friday, October 12, 2007

NOBEL PEACE PRIZE 2007

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Nobel Peace Prize has usually been awarded to the individual contribution for making the world a more peaceful place. The list of prominentl...
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