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This paper documents new facts on corporate taxation and the revenue potential of corporate minimum taxes, leveraging firm-level tax returns from 16 countries. First, effective tax rates follow a humped-shaped pattern with firm size: small firms benefit from reduced rates, while large firms take...
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That free trade allows economies in an ideal world to achieve the greatest possible welfare is one of the few …
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The representation and significance of women in the labor force have grown significantly over the past five decades around the globe. Using nationally representative data from more than 90 countries, this paper documents distinct gender patterns in employment transitions across both sectors and...
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, using the World Bank Enterprise Surveys, this paper analyzes how environmental regulations and treaties affect both the …
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benefits for individuals and communities. Flagship reports and analytical work from international organizations like the World … and rhetoric reflected in what money actually gets spent on? This paper analyzes the World Bank portfolio of projects … highly concentrated in a small number of countries, and over 70 percent of World Bank clients have not received a single …
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In recent years, world food prices have increased and fluctuated widely. This paper explores the impact of …
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100 countries around the world. The literature that has analyzed this data provides evidence that a good business climate …
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developing world, with some countries, and some people, more vulnerable than others. It also threatens to have lasting impacts …
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The benefits of financial development and globalization have come with continuing fragility in financial sectors. Periodic crises have had real but heterogeneous welfare impacts and not just for poor people; indeed, some of the conditions that foster deep and persistent poverty, such as lack of...
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rest of the world. Second, this convergence process will be accompanied by a widening of income distribution in two …
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