State School Finance Issues for the 1980s

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at Knoxville. We are grateful to Kim Bloomquist and John Deskins for many helpful comments and discussions during this research. Michael Jones programmed the experiments. provided very able assistance in running the experiments. Funding for this research was provided by the Internal Revenue Service (TIRNO – 03 – R – 00027). All results and interpretations are those of the authors.

THE STATE OF INDUSTRY IN THE THIRD WORLD IN THE 1980s: ANALYTICAL AND POLICY ISSUES

This paper examines the state of industry in the Third World during the 1980s in a longer term perspective and comments on a range of analytical and policy issues connected with its future development. Two main questions are addressed: In what ways and to what extent has Third World industrialization been affected by the post-1979 world economic crisis? What factors account for the widely diver...

The State of Islamic Finance: Post-crisis and Future Prospects

The main purpose of this paper is to trace epistemological roots of conventional and Islamic finance. Based on an extensive literature review, this paper aims to highlight, explain, and discuss an ideal conventional and Islamic financial system. The ideal conventional financial system is discussed in light of various writings by Smith and Arrow, based on Arrow-Debreu model. On the other ...

Redesigning School Finance Systems

CPRE researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have been working on school finance redesign since 1990. The issue that has driven this effort has been the goal of state standards-based education reform and, more recently, of the federal No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act to teach all students to high standards. This goal has shifted the orientation of the education system from inputs to o...

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