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Would better state institutions increase tax collection, or would higher tax collection help improve state institutions? In the absence of conclusive guidance from theory, this paper searches for an empirical answer to this question, using a panel dataset covering 110 non-resource-rich countries...
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revenues by over 1.5 percent of GDP in low-income developing countries …
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of national accounts benchmarks, availability annual and quarterly GDP estimates, vintage of the System of National … Accounts (SNA), index formula used for calculating annual constant price (volume) estimates, availability of GDP by different … approaches, timeliness of disseminating and annual and quarterly GDP estimates, availability institutional sector accounts, and …
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that can be used to nowcast GDP and track changes in economic activity for countries in SSA. We make two main contributions … flexibility to incorporate mixed-frequency data variables. We present nowcast results for 2019Q4 and 2020Q1 GDP for Kenya, Nigeria …, South Africa, Uganda, and Ghana, and argue that our factor model methodology can be generalized to nowcast and forecast GDP …
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Monthly economic indicators support policy analysis of current economic developments and forecasting. This paper presents an overview of the data and statistical requirements to develop those indicators taking into account resource constraints that LIC typically face. We review statistical...
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enhanced oil recovery and treats the impact of taxation on exploration and development in an integrated manner consistent with …
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This study provides an overview of tax structures in LAC before the COVID-19 pandemic, compares it to OECD countries, and provides recommendations for growth-friendly and inclusive tax policy reforms. LAC countries collect significantly lower tax revenue relative to OECD countries and have tax...
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This note provides an overview of recent studies that have begun to investigate how differing moral perspectives shape attitudes toward tax and spending policies. Recent advances in evolutionary moral psychology and their application to survey-based economic analysis yield promising insights....
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