the LTC to strengthen its effect on the still large poverty trap in the Netherlands is likely to be extremely expensive … substantial in the Netherlands …

light on the implications of tax parameters - including targeted tax incentives - on investment returns and help understand … the implications of reform for expected investment outcomes. The document presents two tools for assessing the …

Experience shows that there is often ample room for more effective and efficient use of investment tax incentives in … low-income countries. Tax incentives generally rank low in investment climate surveys in low-income countries, and there … are many examples in which they are reported to be redundant, that is, investment will have been undertaken even without …

The incentives for domestic investment in debtor countries are influenced by the terms of their external obligations … debt contracts could be altered to improve the incentives for investment but this has proven difficult to accomplish …

This paper explores how the tax treatment of investment and savings affects international capital flows as well as … national and global welfare. Focusing on portfolio investment, it evaluates the international effects of capital income taxes … favoring investment in that country and by harming the country’s relative savings performance. The paper concludes that the …

"how to do" energy subsidy reform, drawing on insights from 22 country case studies and analyses carried out by other …

source—each program’s subsidy component. Recent credit reform proposals would make control of credit subsidies the primary … in improving their economic effects by eliminating unintended subsidies. However, many high subsidy-rate programs appear …