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Tax revenue data in Africa : the Government Revenue Dataset and African Tax Outlook in comparison

Mbuyamba, Frankie; McNabb, Kyle - 2024

This paper compares two important sources of tax revenue statistics for African countries, namely the Africa Tax … Administration Forum's African Tax Outlook and the United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research …

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How do small firms respond to tax schedule discontinuities? : evidence from South African tax registers

Boonzaaier, Wian; Harju, Jarkko; Matikka, Tuomas; … - 2016

In this paper we study the effects of various tax schedule discontinuities on the behavior of small firms using high …-quality and population-wide tax register data from South Africa. We use the bunching method to analyse how these discontinuities … affect the firm-size distribution. We first examine how the value-added tax threshold affects the sales distribution of firms …

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Scoping study on the evolution of industry in Ghana

Ackah, Charles; Adjasi, Charles Komla Delali; Turkson, … - 2014

This paper chronicles the evolution of industry in Ghana over the post-independence era from an inward over-protected import substitution industrialization strategy of 1960-83 to an outward liberalized strategy during 1984-2000, and since 2001, to the private sector-led accelerated industrial...

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Domestic savings in sub-Saharan Africa : the case of Ghana

Ackah, Charles; Lambon-Quayefio, Monica - 2023

One essential condition of economic progress in any society is an ample supply of savings, which depends on the growth of real capital. Economists agree that higher investment rates will lead to higher growth. Thus, domestic savings is considered an important determinant of growth in developing...

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