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The impact of aid on total government expenditures : new evidence on fungibility
Marć, Łukasz - 2015
Aid is said to be fungible at the aggregate level if it raises government expenditures by less than the total amount. This happens when the recipient government decreases domestic revenue, decreases net borrowing, or when aid bypasses the budget. This study makes three contributions to both...
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The economics and politics of foreign aid and domestic revenue
Tagem, Abrams M. E. - 2017
developing countries: through behavioural effects, donor conditionality, recipient policy reform and technical assistance; and …
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New evidence from the Government Revenue Dataset
McNabb, Kyle - International Centre for Tax and Development - 2016
Recent work on the relationship between tax structure and economic growth has offered little reliable evidence for developing countries. Yet it is in such countries where the greatest changes in tax structure not only have been seen over the past 30 years but will likely continue to be seen in...
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Understanding the boom : country study : Tanzania
Henstridge, Mark - 2018
associated boom, unlikely. As well as geological, engineering, and market risks, the risks to investment from public policy have …
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Understanding the boom : a framing paper
Henstridge, Mark - 2018
structural change in Africa; and, finally, gathers together observations on policy and institutional changes. …
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Tax effort revisited : new estimates from the Government Revenue Dataset
McNabb, Kyle; Danquah, Michael; Tagem, Abrams M. E. - 2021
Attention on domestic resource mobilization-particularly in developing countries- has increased significantly in recent years. This stems from, among other things, recognition in the Sustainable Development Goals that further domestic funding is required for development needs, and the Addis Tax...
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Tax revenue data in Africa : the Government Revenue Dataset and African Tax Outlook in comparison
Mbuyamba, Frankie; McNabb, Kyle - 2024
Administration Forum's African Tax Outlook and the United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research …
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Aid and the fiscal and monetary responses to Dutch disease
Roe, Alan - 2011
the conventional policy responses that are available to mitigate the main problems that can be caused by DD. This … likely to call for countervailing macroeconomic policy interventions, and when other approaches may be more appropriate. The … typically create joint macroeconomic management problems for such countries. -- Aid ; Dutch disease ; monetary policy ; fiscal …
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Taxless fiscal states : lessons from 19th-century America and 21st-century China
Ang, Yuen Yuen - 2022
How do modern fiscal states arise? Perhaps the most dominant explanation, based on the European experience, is that democratic institutions that limited the extractive power of states-exemplified by the 1688 Glorious Revolution in England-paved the way for the rise of fiscal capacity and...
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Are less developed countries more exposed to multinational tax avoidance? : method and evidence from micro-data
Johannesen, Niels; Tørsløv, Thomas; Wier, Ludvig - 2016
We use a global dataset with information on 210,000 corporations in 102 countries to investigate whether cross-border profit shifting by multinational firms is more prevalent in less developed countries. We propose a novel technique to study aggressive profit shifting and improve the credibility...
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