Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to develop a political‐economy model to show how political imperatives lead to reforms in administering direct tax collection. Design/methodology/approach – A static, political‐gain approach was used to model employment in the tax collection sector...

Purpose – This paper aims to understand the impact of land acquisition and the provision of rehabilitation and remuneration (R & R) transfers included in it, toward the short-run and the long-run growth of an economy as well as on the welfare of farmers and industrialists over time....