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This paper focuses on the Strategy for Accelerated Growth and Sustainable Development (SCADD) for Burkina Faso. It provides an overview of a decade of development, takes stock of the recent performance of Burkina Faso in various areas, and identifies the main challenges. The paper spells out a...
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implementation of MGDS-II will largely depend on sound macroeconomic management and a stable political environment. …
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Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers are prepared by member countries in broad consultation with stakeholders and development partners, including the staffs of the World Bank and the IMF. Updated with annual progress reports, they describe the countries macroeconomic, structural, and social...
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We find experimental evidence that the decision problem of tax compliance changes if subjects’ declarations are not … picture looks more trustworthy than average. Depending on these beliefs, they may adjust their compliance decisions. Our …
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We study compliance dynamics generated by a large set of behavioral rules describing social interaction in a population … cheating-auditing occurs: Intensive monitoring induces compliance, but with high compliance there is incentive for lax … monitoring; with less monitoring, compliance starts decreasing, and then there is an incentive to intensify monitoring. Thus, the …
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The implementation of European Union directives into national law is at the discretion of member states. We analyze incentives for member states to deviate from these directives when the European Commission may sue a defecting member state and rulings at the European Court of Justice (ECJ) are...
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It is entirely appropriate that the study of public finance take seriously “behavioral” inconsistencies with traditional models of individual and collective decision-making. This raises the question of whether the state should play a role in protecting individuals from themselves, and...
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We run a large-scale natural field experiment to evaluate alternative strategies to enforce compliance with the law … mailings, leading to a substantial increase in compliance. Among different mailing conditions a legal threat that stresses a … information about others’ behavior enhances compliance. However, the information condition has a positive effect in municipalities …
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