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The differential multiple tax regime across sectors of production leads to distortions in allocation of resources thus … international competitiveness of the sectors which would have been relatively efficient under distortion-free indirect tax regime … resources and providing full tax offsets is expected to result in gains for GDP, returns to the factors of production and …
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typically calculated as if the tax system is non-distortionary. This paper presents an analogue to genuine saving in a second …
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This paper examines the relationship between tax structures and economic growth by entering indicators of the tax … growth than taxes on consumption and property. More precisely, the findings allow the establishment of a ranking of tax …-oriented tax reform would be to shift part of the revenue base towards recurrent property and consumption taxes and away from …
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The effect of openness and trade orientation on economic growth remains a highly contentious issue in the literature. Trade facilitates the spread of knowledge and the adoption of more advanced and efficient technologies, which hastens total factor productivity (TFP) growth and, hence, per...
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The third issue of the International Productivity Monitor produced by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards contains six articles that deal with a wide range of issues in the productivity area. Topics covered are the contribution of the information and communications technology sector to...
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and of the possibility that higher tax rates in the contemporary period have increased the marginal cost of public funds …
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transfer aspects of the program, and a shift in the tax system from business income to consumption by reducing corporate taxes … and raising the Goods and Services Tax. …
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For the last thirty years one of the dominant economic policies has been the cutting of the top marginal tax rates … theoretical support from a wide range of distributive justice theorists starting with John Rawls’ A Theory of Justice in 1971 … systematic cutting of tax rates over thirty years has provided a reasonable experiment on the thesis that such cutting provides …
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France and Germany have developed their own water pollution policies which combine to varying degrees incentives-based instruments and effluent limits. However, organisational traditions as well as demographic and geographical particularities have led to the implementation of different...
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