access to formal savings. This is the first study to use a randomized controlled trial to evaluate the impact of using mobile … friends. We work with two cross-randomized interventions. The first treatment gave access to a remunerated mobile savings … primary farmer counterparts. We find that the remunerated mobile savings account raised mobile savings, but only while …

This paper examines the characteristics of and interactions among measures to effect saving and investment incentives … ("S-I incentives")in the context of an income tax system that is inadequately indexed for inflation. Examples are … incentives are classified into "consumption tax" and "direct grant" types, and it is shown that these differ in their influence …

This paper examines the characteristics of and interactions among measures to effect saving and investment incentives … ("S-I incentives")in the context of an income tax system that is inadequately indexed for inflation. Examples are … incentives are classified into "consumption tax" and "direct grant" types, and it is shown that these differ in their influence …

This paper explores the qualitative and quantitative implications of taxation for growth and savings in three Latin … American countries: Brazil, Chile and Mexico, studying a small open economy in the context of an endogenous growth model where … labor taxes should be lower than actual taxes in Brazil and Chile. However, while sub-optimal taxes seem to imply lower long …