This paper investigates the factors that shape governments’ capacity to collect revenue. To do so, it analyses how tax revenue responds to tax rates using evidence from a panel of 34 OECD countries over 1978-2014. The estimations show that the response of revenue to rates weakens as rates...

Provides an in-depth analysis of recent trends and developments in trade and investment in the region just before and during the current crisis and seeks to explore issues related to the formulation of inclusive and sustainable trade. The report calls for a rebalancing of the roles of business...

Taxes and cash transfers reduce income inequality more in France than elsewhere in the OECD, because of the large size of the flows involved. But the system is complex overall. Its effectiveness could be enhanced in many ways, for example so as to achieve the same amount of redistribution at...