Books written by Richard Miller Bird

Financing Canadian Government: A Quantitative Overview

Financing Canadian Government: A Quantitative Overview
Rethinking Decentralization in Developing Countries

In an effort to reduce poverty and improve nutrition, this Bank operation assisted the Indian program Operation Flood to develop the dairy industry in India.
Taxing Agricultural Land in Developing Countries

G. K. Helleiner , " The Fiscal Role of the Marketing Boards in Nigerian Economic Development , 1947-61 , " Economic Journal , LXXIV ( 1964 ) , 582-605 ; Jonathan V. Levin , The Export Economies : Their Pattern of Development in ...
Taxing Business: A Provincial Affair?

Taxing Business: A Provincial Affair?
Taxation of International Portfolio Investment

Jenkins , Glenn P. ( 1987 ) , “ The Role and Economic Implications of the Canadian Dividend Tax Credit , ” Economic Council of Canada Discussion Paper No. 307 , June . Jenkins , Glenn P. and Antal Deutsch ( 1982 ) , “ Tax Incentives ...
Public Finance in Developing and Transitional Countries: Essays in Honor of Richard Bird

It is hard to think of anyone who has contributed so much and so widely to research in international public finance in the last 40 years as has Richard Bird....
Financing Canadian Government: A Quantitative Overview

Financing Canadian Government: A Quantitative Overview
Perspectives on Fiscal Federalism

This book addresses a variety of issues relating to intergovernmental finance and the provision and financing of local services including budgeting and financial management, the institutional framework for the conduct of intergovernmental ...
Taxation in Developing Countries

Selection of studies relating to taxation in developing countries. The papers are organized under the following subjects: approaches to development taxation, lessons from experience, taxation and incentives, problems in direct...
Readings on Taxation in Developing Countries

Selection of studies relating to taxation in developing countries. The papers are organized under the following subjects: fiscal policy and economic development; taxation and the external sector; taxation of income...
Tax Reform in Developing Countries

Tax Reform in Developing Countries
Tax Policy and Economic Development

Evaluation of the unique conditions that apply to developing nations and an examination of their impact on both the kinds of taxes that may be raised and the effective administration...
International Handbook of Land and Property Taxation

This major reference work will provide a valuable resource and necessary addition to the libraries of government officials, municipal associations, property assessors, international agencies, teachers and students of public finance.
A Tale of Two Taxes: Property Tax Reform in Ontario

This book examines the broad reform of the Ontario property tax in 1998.
Decentralization of the Socialist State: Intergovernmental Finance in Transition Economies

This work explores the issues invloved in redesigning intergovernmental relations in Albania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Romania, the Russian Federation and the Ukraine, and highlights issues of municipal finance in Budapest...