Tuesday 22 November 2016,
9.15 - 5pm
Crawford School of Public Policy

The 2016 Crawford PhD conference focuses on the increasingly global nature of public policy challenges and the need for solutions to respond creatively and intelligently to this changing dynamic.

Climate change, growing economic and social inequalities, security threats, the movement of people, pandemics, and other major policy issues that the world faces all require understanding from a global perspective. This knowledge can help tailor institutional and policy reform at the global, regional, national, and local levels. In short, these global challenges require smart solutions.

More information and registration to the conference is available here.

There are some interesting papers on aspects of the tax and transfer system, including;

Abstracts

• The evaluation of regional fiscal incentives to local governments: An insight of the design of environmental fiscal transfer in Indonesia
  Adriyanto Adriyanto
  Discussant: Kimlong Chheng

• Taxpayers’ responses to the Medicare Levy Surcharge Thomas Abhayaratna
  Discussant: Shane Johnson

• Fiscal decentralization and convergence in government spending
  Yusniliyana Yusof
  Discussant: Adriyanto Adriyanto

• The perils of lump sum wealth and access to income support
  Sue Regan

All 2016 PhD Conference abstracts can be viewed here.