Fragmentation and severe inequalities in health status, health infrastructure and services were among the major problems the Limpopo Provincial Government had to deal with when they took office in 1994. Hence, as part of an intensive program of legislative and policy development to reform the...

This statement outlines some of the economic effects of the present for the taxation of the foreign activities of United States petroleum corporations. The four principal features of this system are the foreign tax credit, the foreign percentage depletion allowance, the deduction of foreign...

In this review of the proposed procedures for social cost benefit analysis I have taken as the principal references two recent World Bank publications on this subject, L. Squire and Herman G. van der Tak, Economic Analysis of Projects, The Johns’ Hopkins University Press, 1975; and Colin Bruce,...

In this chapter we identify and attempt to qualify the direct and indirect links that the mineral exporting sector has with other economic activity in a developing country. We find that the traditional macroeconomic models used for analysis in developed countries may not be appropriate for some...

As economists with some experience in mineral economics and the analysis of mining tax policy in several countries, it has been with some interest that we have followed the recent exchange between Thomas and Alduck in Mining Magazine regarding the economic effects of "high-grading". It is our...

The purpose of this paper is to outline an approach to the evaluation of public sector enterprise performance that attempts to integrate aspects of the financial, economic and social objectives that these organizations often strive to attain. To provide an empirical basis for this discussion we...

This statement outlines the economic effects of certain features of the existing method of taxation of the foreign operations of the United States petroleum corporations. These tax provisions have allowed the American petroleum companies to largely avoid paying United States tax on their foreign...

The purpose of this paper is to provide a methodology for estimating the rates of return from capital located in the private sectors of the economy. This methodology is then applied to Canadian data and private and economic rates of return from capital are estimated which are largely free from...

In this paper, the tax and regulatory system applicable to petroleum production in Canada is modeled so that an estimate can be made of its impact on private investor’s evaluation of petroleum resources located in that country. This analysis is made from both the point of view of an investor...

This paper investigates the reaction of interest rates to changes in domestic and foreign monetary policies during periods of fixed and flexible exchange rates. In the empirical sections of this study we analyze the relationship between Canadian interest rates and some of their important...