Spending without taxation : FILP and the politics of public finance in Japan /
Governments confront difficult political choices when they must determine how to balance their spending. But what would happen if a government found a means of spending without taxation? In this book, Gene Park demonstrates how the Japanese government established and mobilized an enormous off-budget...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Stanford, Calif. :
Stanford University Press,
©2011.
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Colección: | Studies of the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | Governments confront difficult political choices when they must determine how to balance their spending. But what would happen if a government found a means of spending without taxation? In this book, Gene Park demonstrates how the Japanese government established and mobilized an enormous off-budget spending system, the Fiscal Investment Loan Program (FILP), which drew on postal savings, public pensions, and other funds to pay for its priorities and reduce demands on the budget. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiv, 321 pages) : illustrations |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9780804777667 0804777667 |