The 2004 American Jobs Creation Act (AJCA or the Act) sought to encourage U.S. companies to repatriate foreign earnings and invest them domestically in an effort to increase capital spending and employment. This investigation looks at how the two tax provisions in AJCA, i.e., the repatriation tax holiday and the domestic production activities deduction (DPAD), affected domestic investment and p...

BACKGROUND Despite common recognition of joint responsibility for global health by all countries particularly to ensure justice in global health, current discussions of countries' obligations for global health largely ignore obligations of developing countries. This is especially the case with regards to obligations relating to health financing. Bearing in mind that it is not possible to achiev...

background: accidents, such as domestic accidents, and the resulting injuries are presently a matter of concern in communities. some factors such as urbanization cause an increase in the incidence of accidents for recognized and unrecognized reasons. the aim of the present study was to investigate the incidence of domestic accidents among a group of families who had migrated to the determined u...

RESERVE BANK OF NEW ZEALAND: Bulletin Vol. 66 No. 1 1 In t roduc t ion In modern market-based economies, day-to-day activity involves many millions of transactions for goods, services and financial assets, the payment for which results in the transfer of money. In New Zealand, a total of around $35 billion is processed through domestic payment systems on average every business day, equivalent t...

We characterize the Ramsey optimal rate of inflation in a model with a foreign demand for domestic currency. In the absence of such demand, the model implies that the Friedman rule—deflation at the real rate of interest— is optimal. We show analytically that in the presence of a foreign demand for domestic currency, this result breaks down. Calibrated versions of the model deliver optimal annua...

This paper presents new estimates of annual U.S. production of pig iron dating back to 1827. These estimates are used to assess the vulnerability of the antebellum iron industry to foreign competition and the role of the tariff in fostering the industry’s early development. Domestic pig iron production is found to be highly sensitive to changes in import prices. Although import price fluctuatio...

This study examines debt-growth nexus in developing countries, Nigeria, using annual data from 1986-2020. The were sourced CBN Statistical bulletin and WDI, ARDL techniques employed to analyse the data. findings of showed that domestic debt outstanding is negative related growth long run though it enhancing short-run. External advancement while short positive related. In education connected but...