| Asia, China, ICT, India, TRIPS, Tanzania, corruption, exports, local authorities, local governance, pharmaceutical industries, process patent, product patent, taxation, |
Many local authorities in Tanzania have reformed their tax collection systems in recent years in order to increase their revenue. Brief 10 from REPOA examines recent experiences with privatised revenue collection in seven urban and rural councils in Tanzania, with particular focus on outsourcing of revenue collection to private agents.
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国家统计局总经济师姚景源25日在第七届创业中国高峰论坛上表示，物价上涨主要原因还是中国深层次的经济结构失衡。这次价格上涨是市场对城乡利益的一次再调整。今年1至4月份，我国CPI平均涨幅达到8.2%，其中，食品价格上涨占了84.7%的比重。
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There should be a way to come up with a formula that could be used in measuring the ICT impact on Economic Development, I like to call it ICTIED.
The formula would contain several variables and factors according to the country under study. For instance, a variable could be give to each country similar to the WACC, the variable could be combined of the country ICT readiness indictor, the capability of the country in the ICT industry, the capacity of the country in running or supporting ICT pro more...
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A comparative study is undertaken that explores Chinese and Indian pharmaceutical industries under different patent regimes. It is found that relative to India, which had implemented process patent until 2005, China with a product patent regime since 1993 suffers from both lower drug accessibility and availability (the latter is a missing parameter in the literature). Also, China lags behind in both lower R&D investment and patents filed by Chinese nationals. Based on these findings and associat more...
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This paper analyses China’s ICT exports growth in its two major markets Japan and the US from 1992 to 2004. It focuses on ICT products classified in SITC 75, 76 and 77. The empirical results show that Chinese exports had maintained two-digit annual growth during the period. The growth was much higher than the corresponding growth of the overall markets. By 2004, Chinese ICT exports accounted for 26 per cent of the total Japanese imports and 19 per cent of the total imports of the US in ICT pro more...
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Anti-corruption enforcement has become stronger around the globe over the past five years, according to nearly 70% of respondents to a new survey of business leaders worldwide. Their perceptions are supported by the fact that regulatory authorities and law enforcement are cooperating more frequently. At the same time corruption itself remains a significant problem for business, with more than one-third of survey respondents saying that corrupt business practices are becoming worse. In this envir more...
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by Ben Block on May 14, 2008-
Sitting in a warm Capitol Hill office building last week, a panel of green-collar job activists attempted to rally support among a room of sleepy Congressional staffers. At the end of the briefing, Van Jones, a civil-rights lawyer-turned-green jobs champion, delivered the message that jolted many audience members out of their afternoon haze. "We are about to enter stagflation," Jones said. "That means people get voted out of office."
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