Taxation – Inland Revenue concessions: convenience or just illegal?

Logging Concessions Enable Illegal Logging Crisis in the Peruvian Amazon

The Peruvian Amazon is an important arena in global efforts to promote sustainable logging in the tropics. Despite recent efforts to achieve sustainability, such as provisions in the US-Peru Trade Promotion Agreement, illegal logging continues to plague the region. We present evidence that Peru's legal logging concession system is enabling the widespread illegal logging via the regulatory docum...

Environmental Taxation and Revenue for Development

This paper considers the role of global environmental taxes both as instruments for improving the global environment and as a source of revenue for funding economic development. It reviews the general case for environmental taxes and the particular issues that arise for the adoption of such taxes in an international setting without a single jurisdiction. It also discusses the possibilities for ...

Mobile Ticketing for Public Transportation: Convenience, Efficiency, and Revenue

Wireless LANs – Convenience or Security

Wireless LANs have revolutionized the way in whic h people communicate and share information. The market for wireless applications and hardware is growing at a phenomenal rate. With wireless networks proliferating rapidly, security of these networks becomes a major concern. Networks using the IEEE 802.11b standard have been proven inherently insecure. Hence, there exists the need for a fool -pr...

Infrastructure Concessions — To Auction or Not to Auction ?

It is true, of course, that immediately awarding contracts rather than going through a bidding process can cut implementation times. Some of the early fast-track power projects in the Philippines were completed in less than a year. The costs were high—more than 13 cents a kilowatthour (kwh), compared with 5 to 7 cents for later plants that were competitively bid. But the costs were much lower t...