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encourage increased export activity by manufacturing firms. Macroeconomic data suggest that there has been little response. To …. This paper is a first attempt, by presenting the findings from a survey of 83 firms. Large firms are more likely to export … relationship to size, that firms that sustain investment are more likely to export than those which do not sustain investment. One …
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economies. This did not necessarily determine the post-colonial path: many peasant export economies achieved no poverty …
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This paper contributes to the literature on tax performance in sub-Saharan African countries. A standard model of the determinants of tax revenue is augmented to include measures of indigenous pre-independence institutional structure constructed from anthropological data on the characteristics...
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countries. Additional analysis shows that commodity export prices are a more important determinant of the real exchange rate …
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Growth improved substantially in most countries in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) since 1990, but poverty in SSA as a whole has fallen by about a third, compared to by half or more in other developing regions. While some countries have had little or no success in reducing poverty, many have had...
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Taxation can contribute to state-building through a tax bargain in which taxpayers are willing to increase compliance in return for improved government accountability. There is limited evidence for this in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) where it is argued that the fiscal state is weak, with low tax...
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Taxation can contribute to state-building through a tax bargain in which taxpayers are willing to increase compliance in return for improved government accountability. There is limited evidence for this in sub-Saharan Africa where it is argued that the fiscal state is weak, with low tax revenues...
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