This report studies the revenue requirement of the Government of Belize in short term as well as the tax reform measure needed to face the longer term revenue requirements of the public sector in an environment where tariffs to international trade are being reduced. The study update a similar...

The paper discusses the principal labour market distortions and their effects on the social cost of jobs created in industrial projects. Two alternative approaches – a partial and a general equilibrium analysis - have been put forth in a systematic way to estimate the social cost of job...

The paper presents a theoretical framework for the appraisal of industrial projects. The analysis begins with the commercial evaluation followed by the economic evaluation from the national point of view. Notes are also made regarding indirect effects, the impact of the project on a town and...

The paper evaluates the economic and fiscal impacts in Canada of the exploration tax credit introduced in December 1985. It has examined such issues as the extent of exploration directly attributable to the credit, the cost of the credit to the federal government in forgone tax revenue, the...

The paper describes the general approach to project various tax revenues in future years under the current tax law and proposed changes in the law. It also presents a short term monthly model for monitoring tax revenues. The model is applied to the case of China.

The paper is to formulate an economic model for determining possible development strategies and to demonstrate how it can be applied. It is necessary to identify some of the key economic features found in this part of the country since these will determine the type and the nature of the model.

The paper develops a theoretical framework to measure the effective federal and provincial sales tax rates for final demand commodities. The results show that non-neutralities exist not only in the federal sales tax but also in other taxes in the Canadian commodity tax system. One of the most...

The paper develops a regional general equilibrium model of the Canadian economy to analyze the sectoral and regional impacts of the major changes to the Canadian sales tax system. The results indicate that replacing the federal sales tax with the goods and service tax increases real output in...

The paper is to analyze the inter-industry price and demand effects that were likely to arise from the system of excise tax indexation. The system existed in the period April 1981 to August 1984 in Canada. The paper points out that the unintended cross price effects can be very large when there...

This paper is a comment note on the article by R. N. Batra and R. Singh for their strong conditions required for the existence of the short-run equilibrium and the long-run equilibrium in a two-sector growth model with an intermediate product. Our paper shows that the factor intensities of final...