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2. Tax Legislation Process in Iran during Constitution Era (1906-1922).
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Mardoukhi, Delara
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The structure and organization of finance in Iran's bureaucratic system have a long history, but after the constitution in the years 1906 to 1922, a time when economic problems were very severe, the parliament (Majlis) played a new role in explaining approaches, and the process of drafting, approving, and enforcing laws. The legislative process was impacted by the economic needs of the country, political disorders, and the need to recreate a new structure and organization for the Ministry of Finance, which led to the involvement of finance brokers and representatives of the first to the fourth parliaments. A review of the legislative process of finance in this period shows that the political system of the country has been related to the coherence or disintegration of the organization of finance, the entry and exit of foreign brokers and advisors, new approaches and methods in finance and economic issues of the country. The legislative process of finance, the reform and consolidation of the administrative structure, and the role of entrepreneurs, finance brokers, and parliament are examined in a historical manner using documents, laws, and other library resources. The investigation and search among the obtained data indicate that from the beginning of the establishment of the parliament, economic reform and increase of income were discussed, and according to the government's reliance on tax revenues, it seems taxes must have been the most important reform decision in the years following the constitution. The results show that according to the legislation passed, politicians and parliamentarians prioritized reforming and consolidating the administrative structure, as well as forming the Ministry of Finance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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3. THE IMPACT OF RECENT LEASING ACTIVITY ON THE FINANCIAL SYSTEM IN THE REPUBLIC OF NORTH MACEDONIA.
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SHABANI, Faton
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LEASE & rental services ,PAYMENT ,FINANCE ,INVESTMENTS ,BANKING industry - Abstract
Leasing is an activity that refers to movable and immovable goods, in which the lessee determines the subject of leasing that is purchased or produced by the lessor and is given to the lessee for use for an agreed period, in exchange for payment of compensation for the use of the subject of leasing, based on the leasing agreement concluded between the provider and the lessee, according to the conditions specified in it. Leasing is an alternative way of financing where it is necessary to emphasize the use of the leased goods, and not the ownership over them (use but not possess), i.e. the philosophy of leasing arises from the idea of profitable use of an investment goods followed by a flexible method of payment that allows investment without the additional engagement of core capital, successful operation and maximum utilization of funds. In addition to the primary financing function that the leasing activity has for the lessee, if he uses the leased goods for business purposes, leasing in that case can also have an investment function. Regulated by the Law on Leasing, leasing activity in the Republic of North Macedonia has a fairly short lifespan, focusing exclusively on financial leasing. Through analysis, synthesis, and statistics, the authors processed the official data of the Ministry of Finance presented by the National Bank in the period mainly of the last decade, which offers a clear picture of the movements of the use of leasing in the country. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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4. La manifiesta incompetencia del Estado para ejercer la tutela financiera sobre los entes locales.
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Medina Alcoz, Luis
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FEDERAL government ,STATE power ,SUSTAINABLE development reporting ,LOCAL government ,CONSTITUTIONAL courts ,FINANCIAL statements - Abstract
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- 2023
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5. معوقات الرقابة املالية وأثرها يف فاعلية إجراءات الرقابة ىلع اإلنفاق الحكومي املطبقة من قبل وزارة املالية يف الجمهورية اليمنية.
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علي أبوبكر باوزي and وليد عوض عبيد ديا
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OFFICES ,PUBLIC spending ,AUDIT departments ,PROFESSIONAL practice ,STATISTICS ,REGIONAL differences - Abstract
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- 2023
6. THE SYNERGY IMPACT ON PERFORMANCE: STUDY OF THE MINISTRY OF FINANCE’S SECONDMENT PROGRAM.
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Triastie, Gitty Ajeng and Sampurna, Agung Firman
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SECONDMENTS ,PUBLIC finance ,BUREAUCRACY ,LAW enforcement - Published
- 2023
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7. The characteristics and effects of public participation in Croatian e-consultations in fiscal matters.
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ĐURMAN, PETRA, MUSA, ANAMARIJA, and LUGARIĆ, TEREZA ROGIĆ
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PUBLIC interest ,FISCAL policy ,PUBLIC finance ,AUTHORS - Abstract
Public participation in the formulation of fiscal policy is particularly salient, since public finances is a topic relevant for the public in general, although it requires certain level of knowledge about fiscal matters. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the level and the type of public interest in the area of fiscal policy, and to assess the influence of the interested public on the regulation of fiscal policy. In order to do so, authors analyze the implementation of electronic public consultations (e-consultations) in Croatia conducted by the Ministry of Finance in a three-year period. Research findings suggest that even though the level of participation in fiscal policy area does not significantly derogate from the average of e-consultations at the state level, public interest appears to be quite well organized and informed, which positively affects the level of administrative responsiveness in this policy area. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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8. Effects of Integrated Financial Management Information System Practices on Public Financial Management Performance in the Ministry of Finance.
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Kesto, Dakito Alemu and Misganaw, Aweke Alemu
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MANAGEMENT information systems ,INFORMATION resources management ,FINANCIAL management ,PUBLIC administration ,FINANCIAL performance - Abstract
Since 2010, the Federal Republic of Ethiopia’s Ministry of Finance has employed an Integrated Financial Management Information System (IFMIS) to improve the efficiency and performance of public sector financial management. As a result, the purpose of this study was to examine the effect of IFMIS on public financial management performance in the ministry of finance. 162 employees from the ministry of finance directorates who use the IFMIS were studied using an explanatory research design with a purposive sample. Primary data was gathered through a questionnaire linked to the study’s specific objectives. The data were analysed using descriptive analysis and inferential analysis by SPSS version 25.0 and Excel. The investigation reveals that the IFMIS budgeting system, financial reporting system and organisational accountability mechanism all have an impact on public financial management. The study suggests that the ministry of finance should properly use the information of IFMIS to plan and formulate budgets, examine results against budgets and plans, monitor the performance of specific departments or units and make revisions and adjustments as necessary. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
9. Судьба Пенсионного устава 1827 г. в Российской империи.
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Раскин, Давид Иосифович and Солнышкин, Андрей Александ&
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- 2022
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10. Обязанности, профессиональный облик и личные качества чиновников акцизных управлений и казенных палат в губерниях и областях Восточной Сибири начала ХХ в.
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Карчаева, Татьяна Геннадьевна, Северьянов, Михаил Дмитриевич, Жулаева, Анна Сергеевна, and Новосельцев, Николай Рзавич
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- 2022
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11. POSLEDNJI KOVANI NOVAC KRALJEVINE JUGOSLAVIJE.
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Pantelić, Svetlana
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- 2021
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12. ALOIS RAŠIN - CZESKI I CZECHOSŁOWACKI EKONOMISTA. PRZEGLĄD WYBRANYCH KONCEPCJI I POGLĄDÓW.
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OLEKSIUK, ADAM
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Alois Rašín (1867-1923) was a Czech and Czechoslovak politician, economist, one of the founders of Czechoslovakia and its first finance minister. Alois Rašín is also the author of the first Czechoslovak law and the creator of the national currency, i.e. the Czechoslovak koruna. Rašín was a representative of conservative liberalism. This paper presents a review of Alois Rašín's concepts and views as the Minister of Finance of Czechoslovakia. Particular attention was paid to his efforts to regulate the currency and monetary system of Czechoslovakia and to fight galloping inflation (hyperinflation). Rašín supported free competition, believed in an entrepreneurial society, and believed that the state should strive to maintain a balanced budget. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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13. مستشاران خزانهداری و مسئلهی پرداخت حقوق پس از مشروطه )1290-1300(.
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محمدی, امین and میرجلیلی, سید حسین
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After the establishment of the constitutional system, the payment of salaries became a critical issue for the government. An examination of Ministry of Finance documents shows that the government was unable to pay salaries in a timely and complete manner due to financial bankruptcy, financial specialists were hired from the West. The most important policy pursued for hiring foreign advisors, they were chosen from governments other than Russia and Britain. advisers from Belgium, France, and the United States were hired by the Iranian government to regulate Iran's crisis-ridden financial system., the traditional structure governing them changed completely. Of these three axes, the pay system was of particular importance, because since the time of Muzaffar al-Din Shah, the inability to pay had caused a crisis that was rapidly increasing in severity. This article seeks to answer the question of how the treasury advisers used to solve the issue of payroll, and finally, to what extent they were able to achieve their goals and those of the constitutional government, which was to organize the crisis-paying payroll system. The findings of this study show that in order to solve the issue of payment of salaries, these advisors tried to solve the issue of payments by prioritizing the payment of current salaries and reducing some salaries, by implementing the policy of increasing revenues and reducing government expenditures. Governors and disputes with finance ministers over powers prevented them from carrying out their actions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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14. The obstacles of IPSAS Application in Lebanon (Case study: Ministry of Finance).
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Ghader, Abed El-Hai and Bassbous, Elie
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INDUSTRIAL management ,LIQUIDITY (Economics) ,PUBLIC institutions ,FINANCIAL statements ,LEBANESE economy - Abstract
Due to the current economic situation in Lebanon the Lebanese government need international assist and grants in order to relaunch the economic cycle, the International Monetary Fund and World Bank request from the Lebanese government to apply IPSAS in order to have transparent financial statement. Lebanon is experiencing a severe financial crises that impact the economic and business. The impact includes a significant public debt burden. This has created liquidity pressure in most business. The prime minister in 7
th march 2020 declare officially that Lebanese government will not pay be able to pay Eurobond due on March 2020 witch is considered a debt default. This study aims to determine obstacles of Applying International Accounting Standards for Public Sector in Lebanese Ministry of Finance; the descriptive approach is adopted through books, journals and previous studies in the composition of secondary data; and a sample of the study community to form the preliminary statements using the interview with members of IPSAS committee at the ministry of finance. The results have shown that there were difficulties evidences in the infrastructure and in the accounting system. Finally, the study recommended the importance of continuous reforming for the accounting programs in the public institutional sectors in Lebanon to reach up with rapid development in the accounting sector. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]- Published
- 2021
15. Influence of Institutional and Decision Usefulness-related Factors on the effective Implementation of External Auditor's recommendations in Tanzania's Ministry of Finance (Vote 50).
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Mbelwa, Latifa and Lenatusi, Munyangabi L. L.
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FINANCIAL management ,AUDITING ,INFORMATION & communication technologies ,MALPRACTICE ,PUBLIC sector - Abstract
This study investigates the influence of auditee organisation Institutional and auditee individual actors' decision usefulness factors on the effective implementation of the Controller and Auditor General's Recommendations in the Central Government. The study employed a Descriptive and explanatory study designs, with the Ministry of Finance (Vote 50) selected due to its pioneering and exemplary role in financial management of the country. Data were collected using structured questionnaires administered with key staff of the Ministry of Finance (MoF). The study found that the critical auditee organisation institutional factors including pressure from the accounting and auditing professional board, followed by pressures from development partners/donors, public pressure, the relationship between CAG and his clients, adoption of ICT (EPICOR, LAWSON) and government laws. Overall, the findings illustrate the role of institutional theories (OIE and NIS) in explaining the auditee institutional environment that shape the effective implementation of CAG's recommendations by public officers. Furthermore, the findings reveal the critical auditee individual actor factors including skills and knowledge in effective implementation of CAG's recommendations. On the other hand, limited professional liability by public officials emerged as an impediment to effective implementation of the CAG recommendations. Thus, the study findings appreciate the role of the decision usefulness concept that promote understandability acquired from skills and knowledge for the effective implementation of CAG's recommendations by public officers. The study findings also posit that public officers need to practice the professional liability, which was currently unappealing. In a nutshell, the study has established both institutional and decision usefulness factors that are significantly related to effective implementation of the CAG recommendations by public officers in the emerging economy contexts, with Tanzania serving as an example. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
16. TBMM'DE EKONOMİK GÜNDEM: RUS ALTINLARI (1920-1922).
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ÇAMUR, GAZİ
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- 2020
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17. Novčanica od 50 dinara nastala u miru – puštena u ratu.
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Pantelić, Svetlana
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- 2020
18. 1926 -1991 وزارةىالمالوةىالعراقوةىوتطورهوكلهاىالوظوفيىوتنوعىمهامهاىاإلداروة.
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ىصالحىعبدىالحس&# and دىفؤادىطارقىكا&#
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ECONOMIC policy ,ACCOUNTING ,TARIFF laws ,MONETARY policy ,ACTIVITY-based costing - Abstract
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- 2020
19. ПОЯСНЮВАЛЬНА ЗАПИСКА ХАРИТОНА ЛЕБЕДЯ-ЮРЧИКА ДО БЮДЖЕТУ УНР ЗА 1918 РІК (З АРХІВУ ДЕРЖАВНОЇ КАНЦЕЛЯРІЇ УНР)
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Кавунник, В. Л.
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INTERNATIONAL law ,FALSIFICATION ,HISTORIANS ,MEMORANDUMS ,BUDGET ,FINANCE periodicals - Abstract
The explanatory memorandum for budget 1918 of Ukrainian Democratic Republic by Kharyton Lebid-Yurchyk as the head of Treasure Department under Ministry of finance was published. In this document, in particular, considering the process of preparing, comparing income and expenses parts of budget. However, the archival source proves, during February 1918 - March 1921 Ukrainian Democratic Republic exist as entire subject of international law, contradict falsification of communistic concept and, unfortunately, some modern Ukrainian historians about existence on this territory at least three "political regimes", "governnements" and even states. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
20. Demonetization Debate: A Policy Review.
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Hosain, Md Sajjad
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FINANCIAL instruments ,COMMUNITY banks ,TAX returns ,DEBATE ,ECONOMIES of scale - Abstract
This policy review paper aims at making a general discussion of positive and negative effects on the demonetization decision of 500 and 1000 rupee notes in 2016 made by the Indian government. The paper concludes that although there are numerous negative after-effects of demonetization policy such as sufferings in rural banking, disturbance in small & medium businesses and sufferings for farmers & agro-traders, it also has several positive outcomes on the Indian economy, such as an increase in tax return, an increase in transactions on bonds & financial instruments, and an overall revitalization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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21. „Wolne środki" w ustawie o finansach publicznych z perspektywy kompetencji Ministra Finansów.
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KUCIA-GUŚCIORA, BEATA
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- 2019
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22. Phases of Budgetary Cycle in India.
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Sury, M. M.
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BUDGET ,GRANTS (Money) ,INVESTMENT advisors ,ECONOMICS ,PUBLIC spending - Abstract
As in the case of other democratic societies, government budgeting is a constitutional obligation in India. Given the huge size and federal structure of Indian economy, budgeting is a complex task which involves considerable efforts on the part of the Ministry of Finance and other related Ministries and Departments. With the help of their financial advisers, individual Ministries/Departments formulate their spending plans on the basis of their previous year spending and the new schemes and projects which they intend to take up. This paper outlines the phases of budgetary cycle in India focusing largely on preparation of the budget, legalisation of the budget, execution of the budget and auditing of accounts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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23. Valstspapīru spiestuves izveidošana un pirmie darbības gadi (1919-1921).
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Ančupāne, Agita
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- 2017
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24. MERKEZİ YÖNETİM BÜTÇESİ İLE KAMU YATIRIM PROGRAMININ KODLAMA SİSTEMLERİ BAZINDA KARŞILAŞTIRILMASI: TESPİTLER, SORUNLAR VE ÇÖZÜM ÖNERİLERİ.
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YAVUZ, Mehmet
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- 2017
25. DEVLET KAYITLARI ARASINDA BULUNAN ALİ EMİR! EFENDİ'YE İLİŞKİN BELGELER DOCUMENTS RELATED TO ALİ EMIRI EFENDİ THAT WERE FOUND WITHIN STATE RECORDS.
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MERMUTLU, Bedri
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- 2016
26. The Macro Forecasting Record of the Indonesian Financial Authorities, 2004–15.
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Kenward, Lloyd R.
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MACROECONOMICS ,CENTRAL banking industry ,FINANCE ministers ,PRICE inflation ,ECONOMIC forecasting - Abstract
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- 2016
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27. НАПРЯМИ ВДОСКОНАЛЕННЯ МЕХАНІЗМІВ ЗАЛУЧЕННЯ ФІНАНСОВИХ РЕСУРСІВ МІЖНАРОДНИХ ІНСТИТУЦІЙ В УМОВАХ ФІНАНСОВОЇ ГЛОБАЛІЗАЦІЇ ТА ЄВРОІНТЕГРАЦІЇ
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КОЛОСОВА, ВІКТОРІЯ
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- 2016
28. SREBRNI KOVANI NOVAC IZ 1904. GODINE.
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Pantelić, Svetlana
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- 2015
29. Networks in the context of transformative agendas.
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Keshavarzian, Arang
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Why have the guilds, which play an influential socio-political role and are ready to cooperate economically with the government, fallen out of favor …? [T]he constitution of political forces relates to various and shifting bases of social solidarities, but crucially, these varieties and shifts often result from changes in political and economic conjuncture, including state structures and policies … . Chapter 3 outlined the change in the form of governance in the Tehran Bazaar and demonstrated that the cooperative hierarchies of the prerevolutionary era have given way to coercive hierarchies. In the process of elucidating this transformation it also pointed to the symptoms and immediate causes of this shift – political uncertainty, the increased use of cash, the acute problem of bounced checks, the rise of smuggling activities, the change in composition of bazaar members, and the demise of network producers such as brokers. These proximate causes and effects can be explained by generally accepted economic theories and straightforward political logic. When import monopolies are created and licenses are distributed, one expects rent seeking, corruption, and smuggling; when state institutions are up for grabs, especially in the case of a rentier state, it is unsurprising that competition over their design and the control of organizations that distribute power and wealth will ensue. What still remain as questions are what underlies the shifts in the Bazaar's governance and what propelled these dynamics to take place specifically in the postrevolutionary era. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2007
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30. Electoral Markets and Party Substitutes in Russia : Origins and Impact.
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Hale, Henry E.
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How can we explain the puzzling pattern that Chapter 3 found to exist? On one hand, that chapter's exhaustive study of party strength established that parties were in many ways quite strong in Russia as President Vladimir Putin moved into his second term in office. Collectively, they had cultivated distinctive positions on important issues, developed sizable populations of loyalists, and proven capable of significantly enhancing their candidates' chances in parliamentary elections. These findings appear to contradict widespread suppositions that Russian parties were consistently incapable of providing meaningful support for their candidates or were unable to communicate clear policy positions. On the other hand, we also saw that this party development had largely stalled by the late 1990s after progressing markedly in the middle of that decade; while some growth reemerged with the 2003 election, it was unbalanced, with one party (United Russia) accounting for a disproportionate share while some other key parties appeared to be in decline. Moreover, we found that parties had penetrated some organs of power more fully than others. These latter observations seem contrary to the anticipation of many theorists that the incentives provided by electoral competition would inevitably and smoothly lead to the prevalence of party politics in some form. The logic of electoral markets sketched in Chapter 1 supplies us with some explanatory leverage on this puzzle. If candidates are treated as consumers of goods and services that help them get elected, parties can be seen as suppliers who emerge to meet this candidate demand. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2006
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31. Russians as Joiners: Realist and Liberal Conceptions of Postcommunist Europe.
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Immediately after the collapse of communism in Europe, many students of international relations predicted a return to balance-of-power politics among the great European powers. Others foresaw new balancing between the United States and Europe as the international system moved from a bipolar order to a multipolar world. A decade later, the distinguished observer Joseph Joffe argued that Western Europe and Russia might join together to offset American power: “Ten years after victory in the cold war, the United States is still No. 1 by any conceivable measure. But the lesser actors – Russia, Europe, China – are beginning to make true what history and political theory have predicted all along: Great powers will generate ‘ganging up.’ Nos. 2, 3, and 4 will seek to balance against Mr. Big.” And a recent book by a leading Europe scholar, Charles Kupchan, predicts that a united Europe will emerge as America's main long-term strategic challenger. Joffe, Kupchan, and other realists like John Mearsheimer and Kenneth Waltz eventually may be right. Perhaps the German, French, and Russian coalition during the 2003 Iraq war is just the beginning. In the future, realpolitik and balance of power may return as the organizing principles of international politics on the European continent. Someday, the “lesser” powers may seek to balance against the United States. To date, however, what is more striking is how wrong these realist predictions since 1989 have proven to be. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2004
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32. Overall View.
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Spulber, Nicolas
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Transition and the Agricultural Economy Consider now the similarities and the differences among the three transitions toward modernization in general, the structural transformations they called forth, the changes they set in motion within the different frameworks in which they arose, and the conceptions advanced during their unfolding by the reformers who proposed the measures. In the pursuit of the same goal, namely “catching up” with the continually developing countries of Western Europe, the three Russian transitions toward modernity called forth many valid proposals and set in motion methods of changes; yet all ultimately yielded only limited results. Poor and underdeveloped Tsarist Russia aimed quite decisively from the 1890s on to surmount its backwardness, notably by supporting the expansion of some of Russia's industries oriented toward export, and forcefully developing Russia's railway network with substantial help from foreign capital. Yet, the succeeding Soviet Russia still inherited a backward, war-ravaged economy that in its turn tried to develop by emphasizing from 1928 on the rapid growth of heavy industry (oriented primarily toward military production), deliberately neglecting the civilian needs, and rejecting the import of foreign capital. After all this, however, Soviet Russia also failed to “catch up” and, as its leaders had pretentiously sought, to “surpass” the West. Finally, the patrimonial state of Boris Yeltsin and then of Vladimir Putin inherited the largely obsolescent Soviet industry within the limits of a former empire shattered in all its structural components. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2003
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33. State Finance.
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Spulber, Nicolas
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Size and Structure of the Budget The General Government Budget of the Russian Federation includes the federal government budget and the subnational budgets – that is, the regional and local budgets – as well as the main social extra budgetary funds comprising the Pension Fund, the Employment Fund, the Social Insurance Fund, and the Federal Medical Insurance Fund. The federal and the subnational budgets are jointly designated as the consolidated budget. As can be seen in Table 26-1, between 1994 and 1998, at the core of the system, the federal revenues declined from 11.8 percent of the GDP in 1994, after various rises from 1995 to 1997, to only 10.7 percent by 1998. Outlays, moving on a higher level, contracted from 23.2 percent of the GDP in 1994 to 16.6 percent in 1998. All this left a federal deficit amounting to 5.9 percent of the GDP. I will examine further on in detail the multiple causes of the general decreasing trends. For now, let me note only that the critical reasons of the contractions have been, on the one hand, the continuous fall in profitability throughout the economy and, on the other hand, the manifest incapacity of the government to limit spending. Consider now the structure of the budgetary system. The capital instrument of budget receipts, taxation, has been continually hampered by the excessive number of taxes and by the granting of numerous exemptions that have encouraged tax evasion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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34. State Finance.
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Spulber, Nicolas
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Size and Structure of the Budget A law of 1862 defined the method of compiling the budget. Subsequently, from 1866 on, the budgetary accounts consisted of the following parts: 1) actual receipts and expenditures; 2) transferences of sums among different branches of administration; and 3) extraordinary revenues (loans, war indemnities) and extraordinary outlays (railways, military, public works). The second category was abolished in 1892. In accordance with a law of June 1894, the ordinary receipts included direct and indirect taxes, duties, and royalties and receipts from state property, funds, and other sources. The ordinary expenditures composed the following main branches: the higher state institutions; the clergy; the ministries and their related services; the ministers of war and of the navy; and the service of the state debt (see Table 8-1). Faced with the need to increase its outlays, the state fell increasingly into debt. It had to rely not only on increases in direct and indirect taxes, but on expanding domestic and foreign borrowing. The growth of outlays was due notably to the obligations resulting from the land reform of 1861 and the measures involving the transfers of land, to the charges resulting from railroad construction, and to the costs of the wars with Turkey and subsequently with Japan. The purchases of land by the Treasury, which the peasants were supposed to reimburse, weighed heavily on the budget for over twenty years. The expansion of the railway network affected the budget expenditures strongly from 1867 on. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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35. Money and Banking.
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Spulber, Nicolas
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The Monetary System For comprehension of the Russian monetary system prevailing after the Crimean War, a brief recap of its origins and evolution may prove helpful. The basic features of this system were established under Peter the Great. At the time, the state issued gold rubles, silver rubles (at the exchange rate of 13.8 silver rubles to 1 gold ruble), and small copper change. By 1755, under the Empress Elizabeth, the state issued a new set of gold pieces – so-called imperials and semi-imperials – at a high rate of exchange against the silver rubles. Finally, under Catherine II in 1759, paper money made its appearance under the name of assignat rubles. The price of the assignat was set almost equal to that of the silver currency. The number of assignats increased sharply afterward, particularly during the war with Napoleon, and their value declined appreciably. By 1810, under Alexander I, Russia finally decided to reduce the amount of paper rubles in circulation, increase their value, and ensure the country's monetary stability. To do so, the state adopted as a monetary basis silver monometallism, that is, it made the silver ruble the country's basic monetary unit. At the time, it had also been projected to give to the assignant a precise value in relation to silver, but the project was not carried out. The metallic money and the assignants continued to circulate jointly but at a high premium of exchange for the silver ruble. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2003
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36. Indonesian Technocracy in Transition: A Preliminary Analysis.
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Shiraishi Takashi
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TECHNOCRACY ,MERITOCRACY ,SOCIALISM ,POLITICAL doctrines ,OVERPRODUCTION - Abstract
Indonesia underwent enormous political and institutional changes in the wake of the 1997-98 economic crisis and the collapse of Soeharto's authoritarian regime. Yet something curious happened under President Yudhoyono: a politics of economic growth has returned in post-crisis decentralized, democratic Indonesia. The politics of economic growth is politics that transforms political issues of redistribution into problems of output and attempts to neutralize social conflict in favor of a consensus on growth. Under Soeharto, this politics provided ideological legitimation to his authoritarian regime. The new politics of economic growth in post-Soeharto Indonesia works differently. Decentralized democracy created a new set of conditions for doing politics: social divisions along ethnic and religious lines are no longer suppressed but are contained locally. A new institutional framework was also created for the economic policy-making. The 1999 Central Bank Law guarantees the independence of the Bank Indonesia (BI) from the government. The Law on State Finance requires the government to keep the annual budget deficit below 3% of the GDP while also expanding the powers of the Ministry of Finance (MOF) at the expense of National Development Planning Agency. No longer insulated in a state of political demobilization as under Soeharto, Indonesian technocracy depends for its performance on who runs these institutions and the complex political processes that inform their decisions and operations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2014
37. Banca Naţională a României şi Ministerul de Finanţe în perioada Holocaustului din România.
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FLORIAN, ALEXANDRU
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- 2014
38. Некоторые направления государственной деятельности Е.Ф. Канкрина.
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Ларина, Ольга Григорьевна and Шайдуров, Владимир Николаевич
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39. Государственная деятельность и личные взаимоотношения Николая I и Е.Ф. Канкрина (статья первая).
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Ларина, Ольга Григорьевна and Емельянов, Алексей Сергеевич
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Copyright of Bylye Gody is the property of Cherkas Global University Press and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)
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- 2014
40. Moving from ideas to action - developing health financing systems towards universal coverage in Africa.
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Musango, Laurent, Nabyonga Orem, Juliet, Elovainio, Riku, and Kirigia, Joses
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HEALTH funding ,FINANCE ministers ,PUBLIC finance ,MEDICAL care - Abstract
Background: Accelerating progress towards universal coverage in African countries calls for concrete actions that reinforce social health protection through establishment of sustainable health financing mechanisms. In order to explore possible pathways for moving past the existing obstacles, panel discussions were organized on health financing bringing together Ministers of health and Ministers of finance with the objective of creating a discussion space where the different perspectives on key issues and needed actions could meet. This article presents a synthesis of panel discussions focusing on the identified challenges and the possible solutions. The overview of this paper is based on the objectives and proceedings of the panel discussions and relies on the observation and study of the interaction between the panelists and on the discourse used. Summary: The discussion highlighted that a large proportion of the African population has no access to needed health services with significant reliance on direct out of pocket payments. There are multiple obstacles in making prepayment and pooling mechanisms operational. The relatively strong political commitment to health has not always translated into more public spending for health. Donor investment in health in low income countries still falls below commitments. There is need to explore innovative domestic revenue collection mechanisms. Although inadequate funding for health is a fundamental problem, inefficient use of resources is of great concern. There is need to generate robust evidence focusing on issues of importance to ministry of finance. The current unsatisfactory state of health financing was mainly attributed to lack of clear vision; evidence based plans and costed strategies. Discussion: Based on the analysis of discussion made, there are points of convergence and divergence in the discourse and positions of the two ministries. The current blockage points holding back budget allocations for health can be solved with a more evidence based approach and dialogue based on a clear vision and costed strategic plan articulated by the ministry of health. Improving health in Africa is a driver for long-term economic growth and development and this is the reason why the ministries of health and finance will need to find common ground on how to create policy coherence and how to articulate their respective objectives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2012
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41. Bankenkrise und Bankenrettung - Die Reichs-Kredit-Gesellschaft in der Banken- und Finanzkrise des Jahres 1931.
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Wixforth, Harald
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ECONOMICS ,FINANCIAL crises ,FINANCIAL bailouts ,ECONOMIC history ,GERMAN economy ,HISTORY - Abstract
The article discusses the German banking system's collapse on July 13th 1931 and the way in which the German government confronted the problem of reorganizing and reconstructing the national financial system. In order to stand up to the challenge, the government concentrated its efforts on stabilizing the Reichs-Kredit-Gesellschaft, a state owned great bank, which played a prominent role in safeguarding the survival of the Dresdner Bank as well as other regional banks. This article examines the different steps involved in restoring the Dresdner Bank's liquidity, in granting it credit and in completely reconstructing it under German government control. Furthermore, it analyzes these steps in some of the smaller regional banks.
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42. Rhine and Loire: Napoleonic elites and social order.
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A few years ago, while preparing a review article on Marxist interpretations of the French Revolution, I realised how lonely someone looking at that debate from the Napoleonic end, the ‘other’ end as it were, could feel. If the historiographical consensus which passed as the orthodox view of the Revolution from the 1930s to the 1950s could be called ‘Marxist’, granted a good deal of diversity within its fraternity, its main focus was on the revolutionary period itself, or on what were considered ‘strategic’ parts of it. Since the mounting attack on received Marxist lore, first in the Anglo-Saxon countries, and then in France itself, the limelight seems to have shifted from the years 1789–94 to the old regime, in other words to the ‘causes’ or ‘origins’ of the Revolution. That indeed is now the main area of pragmatic research on the subject. Few historians, whether for or against the ‘bourgeois revolution’ of the Marxist paradigm, would now insist that the Year II was the strategic or exemplary year of the Revolution. If anything, it is seen as an aberration, as an atypical phase. Whatever else it has done, the debate on the Marxist interpretations has made us all much more aware of the empirical continuities of French social and economic history, and especially of the constancy of landed relationships. Yet Marxists have never abandoned their fundamental concept of the French Revolution as a ‘bourgeois revolution’, even if some among them have redefined the term in the light of more recent factual evidence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1983
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43. Political brigandage and popular disaffection in the south-east of France 1795–1804.
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On 1 March 1801, the Abbé Solier was executed in Le Vigan (Gard) for ‘crimes committed against the Republic’. Solier, one of the most notorious ‘political brigands’ operating in the south of France during the period of the Directory, had commanded his bande d'égorgeurs, based along the borders of the departments of the Gard, the Hérault and the Ardèche, from 1795 to his death in 1801. He is by no means one of the forgotten heroes of catholic royalist resistance against the Revolution. The protestant writer, André Chamson, chose Solier as the hero of his latest ‘roman dans l'Histoire’. Philippe Senart has recently devoted two articles in the Revue des deux-mondes to an appreciation of Solier's contribution to the cause of catholic royalism, confronted in the Cévennes region by a powerful tradition of protestant republicanism. Senart notes how, through the medium of the veillées, his grandmother would transmit accounts of the good abbé giving the first communion to catholic children in remote caves and woods; celebrating mass secretly during the worst bouts of persecution; dying a martyr for le bon roi et les bons prêtres. Through the works of Chamson and Senart, we are conducted along the tortuous paths of Cévenol folklore where les étrangers, then as now, are well advised to tread cautiously. However, it was not only in the Cévennes – la terre sainte of protestantism – that the égorgeurs of the south-east operated. Radiating outwards from traditional areas of revolt and particularism, catholic royalist brigandage was to affect many regions within the former provinces of Languedoc and Provence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1983
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44. AN ACADEMY UNDER GOVERNMENT CONTROL.
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Crosland, Maurice
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The Royal Academy of Sciences will continue to remain under the protection of the King and will receive his orders through the particular Secretary of State, to whom his Majesty assigns the task. It is by science that we have been vanquished [in the Franco-Prussian war]. The reason for this lies in the regime which has oppressed us for 80 years, a regime which subordinates men of science to politicians and administrators. Since the first days of August [1914], our Academy has only had one thought: to help the government in the defence of the motherland and of liberty. Government control of the Academy? The relationship between the Academy and the government was always a rather delicate one. Although Condorcet had used the expression ‘fonctionnaires publiques’ to describe members of the Institute which he planned, when the National Institute came into being in 1795 its members were not civil servants. Yet in so far as the National Institute was a government-sponsored body, its members obviously had a certain connection with the state, both in fact and in the public mind. They represented ‘official’, that is to say, government-sponsored science in a way the Royal Society never did, being ‘Royal’ in name only. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1992
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45. The post-war system, 1946–1959.
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Tamaki, Norio
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Integration, 1946–1954 By the end of March 1948, under the Financial Institution Reconstruction Act of October 1946, the disastrous losses of all wartime bank advances were liquidated. The amount thus eliminated totalled ¥24,800 million, of which nearly two-thirds belonged to ordinary banking. A series of antitrust measures and enactments by the end of 1947, which dissolved the zaibatsu, nullified the bank agreements on interest rates. Urgent action was needed and, with the aid of advice from SCAP, the Temporary Rate Regulation Act was promulgated in December 1947. Under the Act, any rates of interest, from Bank of Japan Rates to call market and mutual loan rates, were to be subject to the directive of the Bank of Japan governor in consultation with a Rate Regulation Committee. A comprehensive Financial Business Bill, together with a Financial Institution Accountancy Bill, proved, by the middle of 1949, to be abortive. They were overtaken by a surge of policy changes brought about by the Dodge Line. Before the breaking apart of the two bills, the Finance Ministry tried hard to put the system together and base it on a more sound foundation. In the autumn of 1946, the government started surveying and reviewing the branch network of banking and other financial institutions. By the spring of 1952, due to the designation of all offices, other than the head office, as ‘branches’, the number of branches increased by more than 1,000. Looking at the American examples, the government had earlier, in the autumn of 1947, presented an outline of deposit insurance, which developed into the ‘Outlines for Deposit Insurance Act’ in October 1949. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1995
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46. MacArthur's directives, 1945–1948.
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Tamaki, Norio
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On 30 August 1945, that is, fifteen days after the Emperor's radio broadcast on 15 August 1945, General Douglas MacArthur, the commander-in-chief of US forces, who had a day before the Japanese surrender been appointed the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers (SCAP), landed at Atsugi air base near Tokyo. The Allied Powers' General Headquarters, known inevitably as GHQ, which became one of the most popular western words in post-war Japan, was accommodated appropriately in the magnificent building of Daiichi Seimei, or First Life Insurance, facing the palace, the seat of the Emperor, just beyond the moat. On 2 September, the Japanese ambassador plenipotentiary, Mamoru Shigemitsu, on board the US battleship Missouri, signed the surrender document accepting the terms of the Potsdam Declaration of 26 July 1945. From then on a series of directives started to stream out from the office of SCAP at GHQ, which, in spite of its title, in effect represented and consulted only the Washington government. As John Foster Dulles later recalled, the Japanese were unexpectedly complacent as directions poured out of MacArthur's office. The Japanese banking system was also subjected to directives from the Americans although, as will be seen, without real understanding. They could readily be outmanoeuvred. It became a priority for the Americans to destroy the war-related monetary and banking system. On 30 September 1945, MacArthur issued the first directive on banking, stating: 1. You will immediately close and not allow to reopen, except at the direction of this headquarters, the head offices, branches and agencies in Japan of the banks and other financial institutions enumerated in Inclosure, attached thereto. […] [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1995
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47. An extraordinary century, 1859–1959.
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Tamaki, Norio
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- 1995
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48. The rise of governmental banking and the search for stability: Japanese initiatives, 1949–1958.
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Tamaki, Norio
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The Americans felt that the colonial banks and the Yokohama Specie Bank had been part of the Japanese war economy and they therefore insisted that they close down and that the Specie Bank convert itself into a small harmless Bank of Tokyo. The three remaining industrial banks, the Industrial Bank of Japan, Hypothec Bank and Hokkaido Development Bank, although still in existence, were vulnerable. SCAP first required the special banks to decide their own future by opting to become ordinary banks or debenture-issuing institutions. Two months later, in August 1948, SCAP issued a memorandum on ‘Overall Revision of Banking Structure’, which was designed to erase any traces of special banks reregistered themselves as ordinary banks, though the Industrial Bank did in fact soon discover a way to resume its old business. The prohibition of new advances by the Reconstruction Finance Cash Office, in addition to the suspension of special banking, was particularly unfortunate because demand for long-term borrowing strengthened as tension on the Korean peninsula was developing in early 1950. In these circumstances the government, with American consent, promulgated the Act of Issuing Bank Debentures in March 1950. The Industrial Bank was included. This heralded the start of the recovery. What was the government to do? The government's approach to the problem was hesitant as, fearful of American disapproval, they laid down two moderate financial schemes to encourage the setting up of small businesses and consumer finance corporations. Small industries had been severely hit during the war and consumer goods were in very short supply. In any case the government only had the resources to remake smaller institutions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1995
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49. Remaking the banking system: the Japanese versus the Americans, 1946–1952.
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Tamaki, Norio
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Towards the end of 1945, after the American operations to clear the war machinery and tackle the grave situation that faced the banks had begun, the Finance Ministry started to work out reconstruction plans. In October 1945, a Preparatory Committee for Revisions of the Bank of Japan Act was appointed, and in December that year it produced a report for the Ministry of Finance. The outgoing Preparatory Committee was immediately succeeded in December 1945 by a Commission on the Financial System, a post-war version of the 1926 Commission and the first of those Commissions which later became an authoritative counselling organ for the Finance Ministry whenever crucial questions arose. This first post-war Commission promptly drafted a report on the overall plan for remaking the Japanese banking system, including the revisions in the Bank of Japan Act, based upon one prepared earlier by the Preparatory Committee. The report included a plan for a ‘Finance Agency’. According to this, the Agency, headed by the Finance Minister assisted by the Bank of Japan governor and the chief of the finance department of the Ministry, was supposed to ensure the supervision of management of national funds and adjustment of interests between industry and finance. The Agency would, according to the plan, be placed in the Ministry of Finance, but the secretarial office would be installed in the Bank of Japan. The ‘Finance Agency’ was to become a focus of Japanese banking as will shortly be disclosed. The Finance Ministry appointed the second Commission on the Financial System in December 1946 to work out a more detailed plan for the future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1995
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50. The 1923 catastrophic earthquake, 1927 financial disaster and the new Bank Act, 1923–1927.
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Tamaki, Norio
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The Great Earthquake of 1923, metropolitan banks in ruin, 1923–1926 On 1 September 1923, at 11.58 a.m., a severe earthquake of 7.9 on the Richter scale hit the Pacific coast of Japan at Tokyo Bay in the area known as the southern Kanto district. This was the Great Kanto Earthquake, the most serious natural disaster ever to fall on Japan. The number of people affected was 3.4 million, of whom more than a hundred thousand died out of a total Kanto population of 11.8 million. Deaths were particularly heavy in Tokyo and Yokohama, which accounted for 65 per cent and 32 per cent of the dead and for 82 per cent and 17 per cent of the missing respectively. The government later estimated the aggregate amount of assets destroyed to be ¥4,570 million, which was 38 per cent of the national income of 1923. More than a third of these were burnt to ashes in the Great Earthquake. The disastrous earthquake had major consequences for the Japanese banking system. On the day of the Great Earthquake, there were 542 bank offices in Tokyo comprised of 168 head offices and 374 branches, of which 285 offices, or 63 per cent, were burnt down. In Yokohama, where most of the banking offices in Kanagawa prefecture were concentrated, all forty-two offices, save for the Specie Bank head office, disappeared completely. In Tokyo, of the eighty-four member banks of the Tokyo Bank Association there survived only eight banks without serious damage including the head offices of the Hypotech Bank, Industrial Bank and Mitsubishi and the Tokyo branches of the Specie Bank, Bank of Taiwan and Sumitomo. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1995
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