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Ghana : Enhancing Revenue Mobilization Through Improved Tax Compliance and Administrative Systems
World Bank - 2020
Ghana's tax collection is low compared with other lower middle-income countries. Non-compliance of tax payments is an urgent issue in Ghana, as the government has been suffering from a widening fiscal deficit and a rising debt burden. Learning from experiences in other countries, this report...
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Pakistan - Tax Policy Report : Tapping Tax Bases for Development - Full Report
World Bank - 2012
the mechanism of taxation and more on the politics of taxation. Beyond adequate administrative resources and an …
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Pakistan - Tax Policy Report : Tapping Tax Bases for Development - Summary Report
World Bank - 2012
the mechanism of taxation and more on the politics of taxation. Beyond adequate administrative resources and an …
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Enhancing Non-SACU Revenue in Swaziland : Improving Tax Policy and Administration
World Bank - 2013
The collapse of Southern African Customs Union (SACU) revenue in 2009 has caused the Government to consider enhancing new sources of revenue in earnest to sustain its development policies. Existing plans that were prepared more than 5 years ago to introduce the Value-Added Tax (VAT) and create a...
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The quality of fiscal adjustment and the long-run growth impact of fiscal policy in Brazil
Blanco, Fernando - 2006
-run impact of government expenditure composition and taxation. They analyze the use of the primary balance as a policy tool … interaction between public expenditure composition and taxation on growth. Similar results are obtained: large elasticities of … output with respect to capital stocks, a significant negative impact of taxation on long-run GDP, and a negative impact of …
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Philippines - Public Expenditure Review : Strengthening Public Finance for More Inclusive Growth
World Bank - 2012
This Public Expenditure Review analyzes trends in revenues, expenditures and development outcomes over the past 10 years. Its main findings are that, since the late 1990s, the Philippines has been caught in a low-revenue, low-expenditure trap and that the current level of public revenues is not...
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Guinea-Bissau - Public Expenditure Review Update : Enhancing Growth and Fiscal Adjustment Through Civil Service Reform
World Bank - 2012
Guinea-Bissau's large public sector wage bill poses a major threat to the country's macroeconomic stability: it hampers growth, limits the government's ability to service the domestic and external debt, and crowds out private investments. For this reason, the government decided in early 2006 to...
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Jamaica : Fiscal Consolidation for Growth and Poverty Reduction, A Public Expenditure Review
World Bank - 2012
This Public Expenditure Review (PER) builds on the commitments of the 2003 Country Economic Memorandum (CEM), and 2002 Country Assistance Strategy (CAS) Progress Report, being its primary objective to assess strengths and weaknesses in key areas of public expenditure, and identify policy options...
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Kyrgyz Republic - Public Expenditure Review : Fiscal Policies for Growth and Poverty Reduction, Volume 1. Main Report
World Bank - 2013
The Kyrgyz Republic suffered severe shocks during the early years of independence, loosing its traditional markets in the Former Soviet Union republics, as well as substantial transfers and subsidies from the Soviet Union, that included a falling GDP during the first five years of transition....
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Kyrgyz Republic - Public Expenditure Review : Fiscal Policies for Growth and Poverty Reduction, Volume 2. Reform Priorities and Sector Strategies
World Bank - 2013
The Kyrgyz Republic suffered severe shocks during the early years of independence, loosing its traditional markets in the Former Soviet Union republics, as well as substantial transfers and subsidies from the Soviet Union, that included a falling GDP during the first five years of transition....
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