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Digital Economy Outlook 2020 published by OECD The OECD Digital Economy Outlook 2020 examines trends and analyses emerging opportunities and challenges in the digital economy. It highlights how OECD countries and partner economies are taking advantage of information and communication technologies (ICTs) and the Internet to meet their public policy objectives. Through comparative evidence, it informs policy makers of regulatory …
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Is It Time to Eliminate Federal Corporate Income Taxes? by Edward Lane and L. Randall Wray published by Levy Economics Institute (11/2020). As the nation is experiencing the need for ever-increasing government expenditures to address COVID-19 disruptions, rebuild the nation’s infrastructure, and many other worthy causes, conventional thinking calls for restoring at least a portion corporate taxes eliminated by the …
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The General Theory as “Depression Economics”? Financial Instability and Crises in Keynes’s Monetary Thought by Joerg Bibow published by Levy Economics Institute (10/2020). This paper revisits Keynes’s writings from Indian Currency and Finance (1913) to The General Theory (1936) with a focus on financial instability. The analysis reveals Keynes’s astute concerns about the stability/fragility of the banking system, especially under …
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Gig work at the base of the pyramid: considering dependence and control by Kate Roll published by UCL (2020). Firms engaged in ‘base of the pyramid (BoP) development’ programmes celebrate the benefits for ‘micro-entrepreneurs,’ who work at the edge of the firm performing last-mile distribution in hard to reach areas. However, the language of ‘micro-entrepreneurship’ obscures the actual employment relationship …
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COVID-19 and public-sector capacity by Mariana Mazzucato and Rainer Kattel published by UCL (2020). “The paper argues that to govern a pandemic, governments require dynamic capabilities and capacity — too often missing. These include capacity to adapt and learn; capacity to align public services and citizen needs; capacity to govern resilient production systems; and capacity to govern data and digital …
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Perspectiva para os programas de transferência de renda em 2021 por Vinícius Botelho publicado por FGV IBRE (12/2020). Considerando que, em 2021, a política social voltará à configuração de 2019 e considerando as linhas de extrema pobreza usuais (até US$ 1,90), até o final de 2021 a pobreza extrema subirá, na comparação com 2019, entre 0,3 e 1,6 pontos percentuais, …
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Sobre desigualdades no Brasil: passado, presente e futuro por Claudio Salvadori Dedecca e Cassiano José Bezerra Marques Trovão publicado por RBEST (2020)O ensaio traz uma reflexão de amplo escopo, em termos metodológicose históricos, sobre as desigualdades socioeconômicas no Brasil. Aintenção é explorar as implicações de transformações passadas epresentes no estado estrutural e secular de desigualdades prevalentesna sociedade, bem como os …
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Redesigning Intergovernmental Transfers: A Colombian Example by Richard M. Bird and Enid Slack published by Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy (1983) This paper contains a description of the principal intergovernmental grant in Colombia, an evaluation of this program in terms of the rationales for such grants found in the academic literature and supported in Colombian discussion, and proposals …
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Making the value added tax happen by Michael D’Ascenzo AO published by eJournal of Tax Research. Political will and a persuasive and well-marketed rationale are required to secure community acceptance of a value added tax (VAT), also termed a goods and services tax (GST). Allied to this political dimension, the capabilities of businesses and their agents are critical considerations in …
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O Legado de Celso Furtado na Fronteira entre Economia e Política publicado por Boletim GEEP (10/2020) Na Ciência Política, Economia Política pode ser entendida de várias formas, incluindo a análise da relação entre economia e poder político dentro dos Estados, teoria das escolhas públicas (“public choice”), relação entre ciclos políticos e política econômica, ou ainda mais amplamente a relação entre …
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