The primary objective of this research is to analyze the potential region's limited natural resources, man-made and human resources for marketing purposes. By doing so, regional government can boost local economy, reduce reliance on financial aid from central government, gradually become self-sufficient. This requires a creative approach fund allocation, whether General Allocation Fund (DAU) or...

This paper presents a model that calculates the social welfare benefits of using additional subsidy to reduce fare levels or improve service levels of public transit in Chicago. The model differentiates between the effects in peak and off-peak periods for both bus and rapid rail service. The potential welfare benefits of transit improvements accrue to several different groups of people: (1) exi...

We examine the welfare consequence of emissions tax with and without a Border Tax Adjustment for an imperfectly competitive industry, where intraindustry trade arises between countries. BTA allows a government to impose a pollution-content tari¤ on imports and refund an emission tax for export sales. We analyze the structure of an optimal emission tax with BTA when a government chooses its emis...

A. McGEHEE HARVEY ans SUSAN L. ABRAMS, "For the welfare of mankind". The Commonwealth Fund and American medicine, Baltimore, Md., and London, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986, 8vo, pp. xiii, 696, £26.50. Histories of philanthropic bodies are notoriously difficult to produce without being boring to all those not directly concerned, such as trustees, staffs, advisers, and, ofcourse, recipient...

Participatory budgeting is a method used by city governments to select public projects fund based on residents' votes. Many cities use participatory at district level. Typically, budget divided among districts proportionally their population, and each holds an election over local then uses its the most preferred voters. However, district-level can yield poor social welfare because it does not n...

The government of Algeria has adopted a new retrenchment system to facilitate labor shedding in a public sector characterized by redundant workers and in an environment of already high unemployment. This article assesses the financial viability of the retrenchment system and the inherent welfare costs and benefits associated with layoffs. A financial flows model tracks the Unemployment Insuranc...

We study the effect of immigration on global welfare. The world is modeled as consisting of two regions, South and North, the former populated by low-skill workers, and the latter by both lowand high-skill workers. Production in the North uses both labor inputs in a complementary way. A trade union in the North keeps the wage of low-skill workers above the Walrasian wage, generating unemploymen...

The Stern Review added balanced growth equivalences (BGE) to the economic climate change research agenda. We first propose rigorous definitions of the BGE for multiple regions and under uncertainty. We show that the change in the BGE is independent of the assumed scenario of per capita income. For comparable welfare economic assumptions as the Stern Review, we calculate lower changes in BGE bet...