This paper seeks to examine how and why gender needs to be brought into the analysis of state developmentalism in Asia. In doing so, the paper focuses on on-going processes of labour market and industrial relations reform that have accompanied Malaysia’s economic development since the early 1970s. The argument is made that understanding these reforms from a gender perspective means that we must...

Cream skimming can be defined as the selective treatment of patients that demand few resources while providing high economic refunds. We test whether cream skimming occurs after the introduction of DRG-based activity-based financing (ABF) in Norway in 1997 and if the problem further increased after the 2002 organizational reform when hospitals were turned into trusts. The DRG-system offers the ...

(6814 words, excluding abstract and references) 1 The author wishes to thank aid agency and Sri Lankan government officials whom it is not possible to name, and also Charles Polidano, Tom Redman, Mark Turner and two anonymous referees, all of whom provided valuable comments. The article explores two contrasting models of public employment reform in developing countries in the Asia Pacific regio...

Land reform usually refers to redistribution of land from the rich to the poor. More broadly, it includes regulation of ownership, operation, leasing, sales, and inheritance of land (indeed, the redistribution of land itself requires legal changes). In an agrarian economy like India with great scarcity, and an unequal distribution, of land, coupled with a large mass of the rural population belo...

In this paper, we study the impact of institutional inertia on the implementation of market-oriented reform programs. We examine the problem of a government who can introduce efficiency-enhancing reforms to increase the rate of economic growth by inducing, via monetary compensations, low productivity workers to exit the sector. In our baseline scenario without institutional inertia, efficiency ...

Environmental taxation very often comprises special provisions for parts of the business sector in order to attenuate effects on competitiveness of emissionintensive activities. This paper discusses motives, alternative designs and criteria for the evaluation of such safeguards and analyzes if such provisions can reconcile environmental and economic objectives. It looks at theoretical aspects a...

This paper studies optimal dynamic tax policy under the threat of political reform. A policy will be reformed ex post if a large enough political coalition supports reform; thus, sustainable policies are those that will continue to attract enough political support in the future. We find that optimal marginal capital taxes are either progressive or U-shaped, so that savings are subsidized for th...