Recent initiatives, such as Apprenticeship 2000 and the Department of Labor report Work-Based Training (1989), have urged a reexamination of apprenticeship training in the United States in order to bridge the skill needs of noncollege-bound youths. Much of this renewed focus has been inspired by the successful experience with apprenticeships in Germany. While there is much to learn from the Ger...

Australia is moving from a fossil fuel-dominated energy mix to one that increasingly powered by solar and wind. Fossil fuel exports are also likely decline given their poor compatibility with the net zero emission targets of key trading partners. There potential for variety new carbon products emerge. This paper reviews implications ongoing transition government revenues extraction use discusse...

Sources of Regional Financing or PAD (Regional Original Income) come from local taxes and regional levies. The increase in Income (PAD) must be carried out by the Government to finance their own needs, so that dependence on Central is decreasing end can independent. This research descriptive quantitative because we have know how much target it meet needs people Bojonegoro which adjusted GRDP. h...

We study interactions between monetary policy, which sets nominal interest rates, and …scal policy, which levies distortionary income taxes to …nance public goods, in a standard, stickyprice economy with monopolistic competition. Policymakers’inability to commit in advance to future policies gives rise to excessive in‡ation and excessive public spending, resulting in welfare losses equivalent t...

Since 1995 (the last time the author addressed the SASTA Congress), the Australian sugar industry has been through significant change. This paper discusses some of those changes and provides a perspective on the responses to those changes. The industry has been through both good and bad times in this period. Production, price and profitability have been through the familiar cycle of highs and l...

The history of tobacco control in the twentieth century can be summed up by the phrase 'too little, too late'. The century saw the proliferation of the most deadly form of tobacco use: cigarette smoking. Until the 1970s, no government took serious action to protect its citizens. In fact, probably the most effective global tobacco control 'strategies' to date have not been motivated by health co...

How do di¤erent levels of government debt a¤ect the optimal conduct of monetary and …scal policies? And what do these optimal policies imply for the evolution of government debt over time? To provide an answer, this paper studies a standard monetary policy model with nominal rigidities and monopolistic competition and adds to it a …scal authority that issues nominal non-state contingent debt, l...

The requirement for significantly higher electricity network investment in the UK seems certain as the capacity of distributed generation and large scale renewables increases on the system. In this paper, which forms a chapter in the forthcoming Book “Delivering a Low Carbon Electricity System: Technologies, Economics and Policy” 2 , the authors make a number of significant suggestions for impr...

Leaders today seem to be suffering from what might be called a failure of the imagination. We seem to be continually finding ourselves in situations where the leaders say something like “no one could have imagined that this would happen.” For example: Who could imagined that Hurricane Katrina would breach the levies in New Orleans; who could have imagined that an insurgency would arise from the...