The article describes the importance and reasons of tax measures taken to fight the crisis. At the beginning it is the comparison of tax policy measures in the context of other measures. Attention is paid to the comparison of fiscal measures in the OECD. Next are presented the basic types of tax...

For Afghanistan, the dual prospect of declining donor support and high ongoing security spending over the medium term keeps the government budget tight. This paper uses a general equilibrium model to capture the security-development tradeoff facing the government in its effort to rehabilitate...