A government's primary duty is to provide its people with public services, for which it needs funding to cover its costs. Taxation, among other things, serves as a significant source of funding for public spending. The government has been able to uncover new avenues for revenue collection...

For a typical developing country, this paper shows that once inter-sectoral linkages are taken into account, closing the productivity gap in a number of services gives bigger gains in aggregate productivity than closing it in agriculture or in manufacturing. This is performed in the context of...

The border regions between Northeast India, Bangladesh, Myanmar and Southwest China are characterized by close historical, intra-ethnic relations and a developing civil society sector as well as violent conflicts and disputes about hydropower and resource extraction projects. What is more, this...