While research and development expenditures are considered a key to productivity growth and development, the question remains whether their contribution could depend on the particular countries' and industries' actual development levels and positions in global value chains. In this paper we...

The idea of fiscal decentralisation has become increasingly fashionable world-wide. In some developed countries the systems of intergovernmental finance have evolved gradually and each country has unique features. Transition countries on different continents have had differing reasons and...

The idea of fiscal decentralisation has become increasingly fashionable world-wide. But every country has unique features of the intergovernmental fiscal system. In general municipal expenditures are rapidly growing in European countries. On the other hand local tax increases are not easily...

Im Umfang um knapp 300 Seiten erweiterte aktualisierte Auflage (zuletzt ID 8/92) des Lexikons für "Führungs- und Fachkräfte in den öffentlichen Verwaltungen". In 6400 Stichworten (davon 88 Basisstichworte) berücksichtigt die seit dem letzten Erscheinen vollzogenen vielfältigen Neuerungen...