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For more than half a century, scholars and international agencies have been making recommendations about taxation in … income and consumption taxes. Why? What do we know now about taxes and developing countries that we did not know 50 years ago …
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Strengthening subnational governments is high on the policy agenda of many developing countries. From an economics perspective, the most important potential benefit from decentralization is the increased efficiency (and consequent welfare gain) that comes from moving governance closer to the...
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low-income countries between 1975 and 2006 is presented. For each dollar lost in trade taxation, democratizing countries …Liberalizing trade has proven highly challenging for some low-income countries, as a large share of their tax … extraction derives from trade taxation. After significant drops in tariff levels over the last 30 years, the recovery of lost …
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low-income countries between 1975 and 2006 is presented. For each dollar lost in trade taxation, democratizing countries …Liberalizing trade has proven highly challenging for some low-income countries, as a large share of their tax … extraction derives from trade taxation. After significant drops in tariff levels over the last 30 years, the recovery of lost …
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A growing economics literature argues that taxation can strengthen the quality of governance and public sector … countries, we find that taxation improves the quality of governance and that those taxes that are borne most directly by …
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<p>A growing economics literature argues that taxation can strengthen the quality of governance and public sector … developing countries, we find that taxation improves the quality of governance and that those taxes that are borne most directly …
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This paper studies the long-term effect of taxation on economic geography and development. We rely on a unique natural … on economic geography and development. These effects are, then, confirmed in a DiD analysis, that studies a very large … still be observed today in population density, firm density, and local average income. …
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This paper studies the long-term effect of taxation on economic geography and development. We rely on a unique natural … on economic geography and development. These effects are, then, confirmed in a DiD analysis, that studies a very large … still be observed today in population density, firm density, and local average income. …
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Administration Forum's African Tax Outlook and the United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research …
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years. This stems from, among other things, recognition in the Sustainable Development Goals that further domestic funding … is required for development needs, and the Addis Tax Initiative, which aims to foster fairer and more effective domestic … resource mobilization. And whilst there is a recognition that many low- and middle-income countries could be collecting more in …
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