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The Latvian game changer : uncertain but possible

The decision of the President Valdis Zatlers, on May 28, to initiate the dissolution of the parliament sent shockwaves throug

06.26.2011
On budget consolidation 2011

I could point to how higher VAT and employment taxes would induce even more tax evasion and 'envelope wages'. I could point t

11.22.2010
How to achieve fiscal consolidation?

Politicians probably know what needs to be done, they just don't know whether they will be re-elected after they do this. Or,

08.31.2010
Well done!

The unfair side of the first-past-the-post election system (there is a fair side to it too, but this is not today's topic) ha

05.20.2010
Who ‘owns’ the IMF program?

However, it's a bit hard to focus when the leaders of People's Party (TP) and First Party/Latvian Way (LPP/LC) announce that

05.10.2010
Stimulus? What stimulus?!

Their near unanimity on desirability of the stimulus is strikingly at odds with the absence of such stimulus. Surreally, this

03.31.2010
Restorative Justice in the Ukraine
11.25.2009
I don’t use my tie every day
11.03.2009
Restorative Justice vs. Juvenile Justice: The Case of Lithuania
09.11.2009