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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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This note brings together the thinking that is occurring in global and regional teams on governance and institutional approaches to dealing with Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19), with a focus on revenue administrations. It presents the governance and institutional reforms that can support revenue...
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This report is motivated by three primary factors. First, customs administrations tend to continue to operate in crisis situations, contrary to other government services. Moreover, customs taxation is the simplest tax instrument to enforce during security crisis periods because it concerns...
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This study discusses options how to increase the Dominican Republic tax revenue and attempts to identify priority areas for efficiency-enhancing reforms. A 2016 World Bank report on Dominican fiscal policy found that the country's tax expenditures were poorly targeted and regressively...
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rate of 7.2 percent. However, this growth has been unequally shared and rural areas still lag far behind urban centers in … both monetary and non-monetary dimensions of wellbeing. As most poor households live in rural areas, increasing rural … opportunities for rural poor households in Mozambique in the next 5-10 years are predominantly in the agricultural sector …
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The rural economy in Bangladesh has been a powerful source of economic growth and has substantially reduced poverty …, especially since 2000, but the remarkable transformation and unprecedented dynamism in rural Bangladesh are an underexplored …, underappreciated, and largely untold story. The analysis identifies the key changes occurring in the rural economy, the principal …
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global markets. To reduce poverty and support inclusive economic growth, rural access is key. The Sustainable Development … economic developmentand human well-being, with a focus on affordableand equitable access for all. The Rural Access Index (RAI … 68.3 percent based onhousehold surveys, leaving a rural population of about one billion unconnected to a good quality …
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'Integrating Nutrition Promotion and Rural Development' (INPARD) is a multisectoral approach to delivering nutrition …-related interventions in rural development programmes in Sri Lanka. Although multisectoral approaches to health promotion are widely … collaboration will also require training for all concerned. The INPARD study was undertaken to investigate how effectively a rural …
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agriculture and rural development in Croatia, as the country prepares its National Agriculture and Rural Development Strategy and … range of strategic themes related to agriculture and rural development in Croatia, including (i) Croatian agricultural … rural development; (iii) the subsidy intensity of income for different farm types, (iv) backward and forward economic …
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