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Better policies from policy-selective aid?

Annen, Kurt; Knack, Stephen F. - 2019

This paper shows that the increased policy-selectivity of aid allocations observed in recent years provides recipient countries an incentive to improve policies. The paper estimates that a change in the World Banks Country Policy and Institutional Assessment policy index from 1.5 to 2 for a...

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Are trade preferences more effective than aid in supporting exports? : evidence from the "everything but arms" preference scheme

Gradeva, Katerina; Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada - In: The world economy : the leading journal on … 39 (2016) 8, pp. 1146-1171

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Trade effects of customs reform : evidence from Albania

Fernandes, Ana Margarida; Hillberry, Russell Henry; … - 2015

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The distributional impact of the fiscal system in Albania

Dávalos, María E.; Robayo-Abril, Monica; Shehaj, Esmeralda - 2018

In a context of fiscal consolidation and the need to deliver on a structural reform agenda, policy makers in Albania … and poverty in Albania, assessing the individual and combined effects of taxes and public social spending. The findings … show that the fiscal system in Albania plays a positive role in reducing inequality. Yet, it has a moderate poverty …

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Be good to thy neighbours : a spatial analysis of foreign direct investment and economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa

Chih, Yao-Yu; Kishan, Ruby P.; Ojede, Andrew - In: The world economy : the leading journal on … 45 (2022) 3, pp. 657-701

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Of governance and revenue : participatory institutions and tax compliance in Brazil

Touchton, Michael; Wampler, Brian; Peixoto, Tiago - 2019

Traditionally, governments seek to mobilize tax revenues by expanding their enforcement of existing tax regimes and facilitating tax payments. However, enforcement and facilitation can be costly and produce diminishing marginal returns if citizens are unwilling to pay their taxes. This paper...

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