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Most developing countries continue to face serious problems in developing adequate and responsive tax systems. This paper reviews the three principal ways in which developing countries may expand and improve their taxation systems - base-broadening, rate reduction, and administrative improvement...
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Since 1950s, most African nations have gained independence from their colonial powers. Fortunately, independence has brought many changes to these nations and these include multi-party democratic government and western education systems. Unfortunately, the Africa’s economy is the least...
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After a decade of research on the relationship between institutions and growth, scholars in this field seem to be … divided. Economic institutions perform well in growth regressions and a body of literature argues that this supports the key … literature describes are the more stable political institutions, and these have been found to play no role in empirical growth …
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Corruption increases inequality in the society (Gupta et al, 1998) by reducing economic growth, biasing the tax system …
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Long-term growth in developing countries has been explained in four frameworks: ‘extractive colonial institutions …, contra Acemoglu et al., (2001). Further, we find that instrumented human capital explains long-term growth better, and shows … the disease environment on African long-term growth runs through a human capital channel rather than an extractive …
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, institutions and growth linkages and subjective well-being in transition countries. …
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The paper looks at the growth and commercialization of microfinance in India. It starts out be looking at how the … as the activities scaled up, it was imperative to move to a commercial format. The paper examines the growth imperatives …
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market in the process of economic growth, public intervention in the economy and the process of institutional innovations. …
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Barro (1991) and the Gastil indices, by comparing their effects both on growth and private investment. The results provide … substantial support for the position that the institutional roots of growth and convergence are significant. The marked …
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growth are cointegrated and thus exhibit a reliable long run relationship. The Granger causality test findings indicate that … the causality between Institutions and growth is uni-directional. However, there is no short run causality from … Institutions to growth and vice versa. Therefore, as a policy implication that institutional quality may cause to the sustainable …
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