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24 January 2019
Overall migration flows continue to decline from almost 6 million workers in 2015 to 5.24 million in 2017. Reduced recruitment in the Gulf Cooperation Countries is the main driver behind this downward trend.
15 November 2018
China Railway Express (CRE) emerged in 2011 as a means of logistics between the People’s Republic of China and the European Union. This presentation describes CRE, its stages of development, challenges, business model, future, and the motivation of the three players behind its operation.
14 November 2018
Investments in high-speed rail (HSR) have a long life and generate impacts which often cannot be allocated directly to specific projects. Therefore, conventional cost–benefit analysis is not sufficient to evaluate the overall impacts of HSR.
24 April 2018
The presentation includes discussion on: (i) the importance of taking gender into consideration in urban planning; (ii) an overview of the concept of gender-responsive budgeting (GRB); (iii) how GRB is linked with urban planning; (iv) actors and stakeholders in the GRB process; (v) some experiences…
22 February 2018
In the Netherlands, property tax is a tax levied by the municipal government according to market value. Assessment of the market value of properties is conducted annually and is based on the Act for Real Estate Assessment. Learn more about the property tax system in the Netherlands.
22 February 2018
Learn about Cambodia’s property tax law. With the aim to promote regional development at the subnational level, the tax applies to immovable properties located in the municipalities and provinces of Cambodia that are valued in excess of 100 million riels.
5 December 2017
In the United Kingdom, the passage of the Freedom of Information was a long and slow process.
Maurice Frankel of the Campaign for Freedom of Information, UK, shares his experience in working on the United Kingdom’s campaign for FOI since it was set up in 1984. Prior to the FOI Law, a statutory…
5 December 2017
Records management helps citizens find requested information, identify the type of information that exists, and ensure the destruction of unwelcome information. This presentation provides useful information on processing freedom of information requests.
21 July 2017
Paul Ofei-Manu shares the underlying principles of social collaboration and case studies on initiatives that highlight good collaborative processes/practices
25 October 2016
As Bulgaria’s tax system deters foreign investors and citizen-taxpayers alike, the need for change is enormous. The Bulgarian government decided to unify and modernize its tax collection facilities by combining the revenue-collection function and the General Tax Directorate into a new, single tax…