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This paper offers a critical review of the methods used to estimate the extent of capital flight and illicit financial flows from developing countries. The largest estimates in the literature are based on imperfect methods with a great margin for error. Emerging new studies have built on...
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This paper undertakes an empirical analysis of the adoption of various components of social security systems as well as contribution rates. Apart from economic determinants of the adoption, the empirical analysis features determinants relating to countries' political systems and contagion. We...
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This paper investigates the relationship between taxation and firm performance in developing countries. Taking firm … to be sample dependent. We also provide evidence that the positive effect of taxation on firm growth falls significantly …
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switched between sectors. We examine, principally by regression methods, the impact of 'linked taxation' in five countries … revenue in all those countries. 'Linked progressive taxation' has evolved over recent years to become more flexible, in … particular through reforms in the sources and types of taxation which are used to finance priority expenditures, and we argue …
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counterpoint to theories about the role of taxation in war-making and state building. …
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) attribute progress towards universal healthcare to higher levels of taxation, but report a negative association between taxes on …
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In this paper we use the new Government Revenue Dataset to analyse fiscal decentralization. We find that developed countries are on average more decentralized than developing countries and that Asia, Europe and North America are among the most fiscally decentralized regions. In our econometric...
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extraction derives from trade taxation. After significant drops in tariff levels over the last 30 years, the recovery of lost … revenues by other sources of taxation has been highly uneven among these countries. This study demonstrates that recovery has … low-income countries between 1975 and 2006 is presented. For each dollar lost in trade taxation, democratizing countries …
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Motivated by the fact that the taxation of natural resources is both crucial and particularly challenging for … conclude to the absence of such an eviction effect: we observe no effect of oil revenue on non-oil taxes through taxation …
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There has long been an emphasis on the importance of decentralization in providing better quality public services in the developing world. In order to assess the effectiveness of decentralization I examine here the case study of Uganda, which has seen major decentralization of power over the...
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