Countries vary widely with respect to the share of government spending on health, a metric that can serve as a proxy … for the extent to which health is prioritized by governments. World Health Organization (WHO) data estimate that, in 2011 …, health's share of aggregate government expenditure in the 170 countries for which data were available averaged 12 percent …

We investigate the relation between changes in tax composition and long-run economic growth using a new dataset … 20 years of observations on total tax revenue during the period 1970-2009—21 high-income, 23 middle-income and 25 low …-income countries. To our knowledge this is the most comprehensive and up-to-date dataset on tax composition and growth. We find that …

This paper discusses important tax policy issues facing developing countries today. It views tax policy from both the … macroeconomic perspective, which focuses on broad questions such as the level and composition of tax revenue, and the microeconomic … perspective, which focuses on certain design aspects of selected major taxes, such as the personal income tax, the corporate …

will need to be addressed to cope with the mounting pressures on public retirement and health care systems during the next …

between permanent changes in the parameters of the tax and expenditure system (e.g., changes in tax progressivity) that will … enhance the traditional automatic stabilizer, and temporary changes triggered by certain economic developments (e.g., tax …

periods. These changes are too large and too sudden to attribute fully to a deterioration in tax administration or to changes … in the traditional determinants of tax levels. The paper argues that they should be attributed mostly to macroeconomic … policies. The paper discusses the connection between tax levels and (a) the real value of the official exchange rate, (b …

tax system. It also illustrates that Haiti’s public sector employment is far smaller than in other countries. …

framework of Global Fiscal Model (GFM) with technical details. It analyzes tax and expenditure measures and implications of …

wages and living standards, productivity and business, Europe, the NHS, schools, tuition fees, gender gaps, urban and … regional policy, top tax rates, inequality, housing and planning, crime, climate change and energy. …

on the cyclical patterns of government health spending. This descriptive analysis, which covers 183 countries between … 1995 and 2010, provides empirical evidence on the cyclicality of government health expenditures, using panel data from a … global macro database, the fiscal health database. The objective is to propose user-friendly diagnostic approaches in this …