We study the incentives of selfish governments to tax tradable primary inputs under asymmetric trade. Using an empirically-consistent model of endogenous growth, we obtain explicit links between persistent gaps in productivity growth and the observed tendency of resource-exporting (importing)...

This paper reports a review of tax incentives for the extractive resource sector in Papua New Guinea (PNG) to ascertain whether the incentives are economically beneficial for the country's economy. A qualitative research approach was used that combined a triangulation of methods to compare tax...