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Empirical Evidence on the Effects of Tax Incentives

Klemm, Alexander - 2009

This paper considers two empirical questions about tax incentives: (1) are incentives used as tools of tax competition and (2) how effective are incentives in attracting investment? To answer these, we prepared a new dataset of tax incentives in over 40 Latin American, Caribbean and African...

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Investment Incentives and Effective Tax Rates in the Philippines

Klemm, Alexander - 2008

We compare the general tax provisions and investment incentives in the Philippines to six other east-Asian economies-Malaysia, Indonesia, Lao, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Thailand. We calculate effective tax rates and find that general effective tax rates are relatively high in the Philippines, while...

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Make in India

Anand, Rahul - 2015

Structural transformation depends not only on how much countries export but also on what they export and with whom they trade. This paper breaks new ground in analyzing India's exports by the technological content, quality, sophistication, and complexity of the export basket. We identify five...

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Tax Incentives and Investment in the Eastern Caribbean.

Sosa, Sebastian - 2006

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Investment Incentives and Effective Tax Rates in the Philippines : A Comparison With Neighboring Countries

Klemm, Alexander - 2008

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Foreign Direct Investment in Africa; Some Case Studies

Basu, Anupam; Srinivasan, Krishna - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2002

This paper reviews the experiences of a few countries in Sub-Saharan Africa that have succeeded in attracting fairly large amounts of foreign investment. The review indicates that sustained efforts to promote political and macroeconomic stability and implement essential structural reforms have...

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Hong Kong SAR Economic Integration with the Pearl River Delta

Unteroberdoerster, Olaf; Chen, Hongyi - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008

Hong Kong SAR's economic integration with the Mainland has primarily taken place in the Pearl River Delta (PRD). Taking stock of integration trends, this paper discusses key implications for ensuring economic benefits of further integration are sustained and associated costs minimized. Besides...

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Estimating Default Frequencies and Macrofinancial Linkages in the Mexican Banking Sector

Souto, Marcos - 2009

The credit risk measures we develop in this paper are used to investigate macrofinancial linkages in the Mexican banking system. Domestic and external macro-financial variables are found to be closely associated with banking soundness. At the aggregate level, high external volatility and...

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Housing Finance and Mortgage-Backed Securities in Mexico

Zanforlin, L. - 2008

This paper reviews the Mexican experience with the securitization of residential mortgages. It highlights the key legislative and institutional reforms leading to the development of primary and secondary mortgage markets and reports the main features and valuation practices of the RMBS markets....

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External Shocks and Business Cycle Fluctuations in Mexico

Sosa, Sebastian - 2008

This paper examines the relative importance of external shocks as sources of business cycle fluctuations in Mexico, and …, it finds that U.S. shocks explain a large share of Mexico's macroeconomic fluctuations after NAFTA. This partly reflects … greater trade integration-but also Mexico's ""Great Moderation,"" as the country escaped its former pattern of macro …

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