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How Does Government Spending Efficiency Affect Human Development in Africa?

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Journal of Public Affairs Pub Date : 2025-02-03 DOI: 10.1002/pa.70012

Olawale Daniel Akinyele, Abiodun Adewale Adegboye, James Temitope Dada

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Financial Growth of Sport Industry in the Extreme Context: Evidence From Iran Under Economic Sanction and COVID-19 Pandemic

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Journal of Public Affairs Pub Date : 2025-02-02 DOI: 10.1002/pa.70011

Zahra Mohity, Maryam Mokhtari Dinani, Abbas Rezaei Pandari, Asghar Afshar Jahanshahi

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Investigating the Association Between Human Resource Management Practices and Job Autonomy on Faculty Job Performance: Evidence From UAE Higher Education Sector

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Journal of Public Affairs Pub Date : 2025-01-30 DOI: 10.1002/pa.70009

Ahmed Mahade, Abdallah Elmahi, Alaa Amin Abdalla, Raed A. Said, Khaled Mohammad Alomari

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Are Pollution Control Bonds and Public Ownership Really Blessing for Utility Firms? 污染控制债券和公共所有权真的是公用事业公司的福音吗？

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Journal of Public Affairs Pub Date : 2025-01-09 DOI: 10.1002/pa.70004

Imen Khanchel, Naima Lassoued, Cyrine Khiari

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Understanding Urban Resilience and SDGs: A New Approach in Decision-Making for Sustainable Cities

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Journal of Public Affairs Pub Date : 2025-01-06 DOI: 10.1002/pa.70007

Luciano Barcellos-Paula, Aline Castro-Rezende, Anna María Gil-Lafuente

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Revealing Factors Influencing Digital Transformation in South Africa's Social Security Organisations

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Journal of Public Affairs Pub Date : 2024-12-29 DOI: 10.1002/pa.70006

Luis Frota, Margaret Chitiga-Mabugu, Adrino Mazenda

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Assessing Pakistan's Textile Exports Under Trade Agreements

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Journal of Public Affairs Pub Date : 2024-12-22 DOI: 10.1002/pa.70001

Amjad Masood, Junaid Ahmed, Khuda Bakhsh

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Deciphering Lobbying as a Public Affairs Strategy: Insights From Canadian Ministers and Political Advisors 解读游说作为公共事务策略：来自加拿大部长和政治顾问的见解

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Journal of Public Affairs Pub Date : 2024-12-19 DOI: 10.1002/pa.70005

Ken Chan

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Does Flow of Remittances Matter for Enhancing the Labor Market Behavior of the Left-Out Members? A Micro-Level Analysis in the Context of Rural Jharkhand, India 汇款流量对加强被遗漏成员的劳动力市场行为有影响吗？印度贾坎德邦农村的微观层面分析

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Journal of Public Affairs Pub Date : 2024-12-12 DOI: 10.1002/pa.70003

Suchi Smita Swain, Gurudas Das, Ujjwal Kanti Paul

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E-Government and Tax Evasion: Does the Free Press Connect the Dots? 电子政府与逃税：新闻自由是否有关联？

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Journal of Public Affairs Pub Date : 2024-12-09 DOI: 10.1002/pa.70002

Cemil Kuzey, Ali Uyar, Khalil Nimer

{"title":"E-Government and Tax Evasion: Does the Free Press Connect the Dots?","authors":"Cemil Kuzey, Ali Uyar, Khalil Nimer","doi":"10.1002/pa.70002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/pa.70002","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This study, for the first time, tests the moderating effect of press freedom on the association between e-government and tax evasion. It aims to suggest policymaking better to combat tax evasion through e-government and the press. The study sample covers the period between 2002 and 2017 and includes 2202 country-year records affiliated with 138 countries. The time-fixed effect was executed to test the proposed hypotheses. The conclusions drawn from the study are as follows. First, the study finds that e-government practices with four proxies curtail tax evasion through a long-term vision of public administration, governments' adaptability to change, delivering online services to the citizens by governments, and crafting a legal framework for digital business services. Second, the study finds that all three proxies of press freedom (i.e., legal, economic, and political) are significant predictors of tax evasion implying that tax evasion is curbed in countries where the press is free in terms of highlighted dimensions of media freedom. Third, the free press, with its all three proxies, moderates and strengthens the relationship between e-government implementation and tax evasion. To fully realize the benefits obtained from e-government implementations, states worldwide need to build a better institutional environment one dimension of which is the free press.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":47153,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Public Affairs","volume":"25 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2024-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142860515","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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