Albania: Enhancing Tax Administration Capacity During Challenging Times

Public Health Administration and Management in Albania

Quality care in challenging times.

Every 72 seconds, someone in the United States develops Alzheimer's disease, an incurable affliction that kills at least 66,000 people annually, making it the nation's seventh leading cause of death. Alzheimer's is the most common form of dementia, accounting for 60 percent of cases (5.1 million people), according to the Alzheimer's Association, Chicago. Dementia describes a group of symptoms--...

Hard Times for Unions: Challenging Times for Scholars

It is rather disconcerting to open an envelope from a law review and find enclosed a manuscript of a forthcoming article to which the editors are asking you to respond. In this case, a quick glance at the opening page of Hard Times for Unions1 revealed that Professors LaLonde and Meltzer were referring to my article, Promises to Keep,2 as a "celebrated work." I knew full well, though, that thei...

State Capacity, Capital Mobility, and Tax Competition

Abstract The theory of international tax competition suggests that governments attempt to attract mobile capital bases by undercutting the foreign capital tax rate. An analysis of the role that state capacity plays in tax policymaking under international pressures is, however, missing. The central contribution of our study is to highlight the importance of the interaction between state capaci...

Challenging times for food allergy tests.

F ood allergies represent a significant problem in the western world, affecting about 7% of children under 3 years of age. 2 The impact of food allergies extend beyond the affected individual to their immediate family, as a great deal of anxiety is generated by the fear of a possible fatal food allergy and the practical problem of food avoidance. Consequently it is essential that a correct diag...