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World Bank Group - 2023

This knowledge note provides new evidence on property ownership and taxation patterns across genders in Sao Paulo (Brazil), the largest city in the Americas, with 12 million inhabitants. We exploit microdata on all commercial and residential properties to document the share of total property and...

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Islamic Trade Finance : An Opportunity for Malaysia

World Bank Group - 2021

Islamic trade finance (ITF) offers a meaningful opportunity for Malaysia. ITF can play a substantial role to support … finance industry in which Malaysia is an established leader. This report explores the ITF opportunity by considering: (1) the … ahead in expanding ITF; and (4) opportunities for expanding ITF in Malaysia. The report includes (5) a set of …

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Islamic Finance and the Development of Malaysia's Halal Economy

World Bank Group - 2022

The halal economy (HE) plays an important role in Malaysia's economic growth, contributing 7.5 percent to the Gross … Domestic Product (GDP) as of 2020. Under the Twelfth Malaysia Plan, 2021-2025 (12MP), one of the key strategies to boost … Malaysia's economic growth is enhancing the competitiveness of the halal industry to capture a more significant share of the …

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Islamic Finance and the Development of Malaysia's Halal Economy

World Bank Group - 2022

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Macroeconomic Stability, Fiscal Policy and Taxation : National Development Strategy Croatia 2030 Policy Note

World Bank Group - 2019

Croatia has made significant economic progress since independence, but the global financial crisis has exposed weaknesses in its economy and growth model. While growth has resumed in 2015, income convergence has been thrown back by the crisis and by the prolonged recession that followed and is...

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Dominican Republic Tax System Review

World Bank Group - 2021

Despite decades of impressive economic growth, tax revenues in the Dominican Republic (DR) remain well below the regional average. The DR's tax base is extremely narrow, with extensive exemptions, deductions, zero-ratings, and allowances across all major tax categories. Tax expenditures amounted...

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Peru - Selected Issues in Fiscal Policy : Taxation and Equity

World Bank Group - 2015

This report takes an in-depth look, from a policy perspective, at the trade-offs between increasing tax collection and improving the equity of the fiscal system. As part of this effort, the report places the Peruvian tax system in an international context and considers the key challenges the...

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Ethiopia : Modelling the Impact of Tobacco Tax Policy Reforms on Tobacco Use and Domestic Resources Mobilization Under Different Scenarios

World Bank Group - 2018

As part of the ongoing tax policy dialogue with the Government of Ethiopia, the World BankGroup organized a workshop in Addis Ababa, on June 20, 2016, to discuss tobacco use, its healthimpact, and excise taxes on tobacco as a public policy measure to reduce tobacco use, and hencethe risk of ill...

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Evidence Brief : Countering Common Arguments against Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Taxes

World Bank Group - 2020

Implementing governments need to be prepared to face considerable opposition in introducing and defending a new sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) tax. Arguments against SSB taxes tend to closely mirror those used against tobacco taxes, including that these taxes are not effective, are regressive...

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Nepal Fiscal Federalism Update, May 2024

World Bank Group - 2024

The World Bank's Nepal Fiscal Federalism Update (NFFU) aims to report annually on the progress of fiscal federalism in Nepal and identify implementation gaps. This second update reviews the progress on fiscal federalism since the publication of the first report and provides an update on economic...

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