The wide availability of renewable energy sources in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) is at the core of several large-scale European initiatives to support clean energy generation in the region and import part of it to Europe. Given the current socio-economic and political challenges in...

In order to stimulate revenue mobilisation and local autonomy, some governments decentralise property taxes to the municipal level. Indonesia did so in a gradual process between 2010 and 2014, transferring responsibility for the rural and urban land and building tax to its nearly 500 cities and...

As regulators, central banks can play a stabilising role, using prudential regulation to ensure financial system stability, and a transformative role, using regulation to promote financial system development and so encourage financial deepening and inclusion. While there are strong arguments for...

Revenue structures vary strongly among developing countries. Most approaches to tax performance fail to give insights into this puzzle. I argue that much of the answer lies in the political dimension and highlight the willingness of elites to pay taxes as the most crucial factor. In contrast to...

This paper contributes to a growing body of literature on the political economy of public finance in developing countries. Its main methodological interest is to demonstrate the usability of household-level data to study political economy features of public finances in developing countries that...

Changes in the financing of United Nations development cooperation (UN-DC) are gradually eroding the multilateral character of UN development aid. Two trends have become clear over the past 15 years. First, donors have more than doubled their financial contributions for UN development...

Embora na maior parte dos países em desenvolvimento o potencial de receitas ao nível subnacional seja modesto, existem bons motivos para os doadores e os parceiros de desenvolvimento prosseguirem e intensificarem os seus esforços neste setor. Por um lado, as receitas obtidas localmente,...

Im Jahr 2015 hat sich die Weltgemeinschaft einem ehrgeizigen Reformprogramm verschrieben. Um die Sustainable Development Goals zu erreichen und die Beschlüsse der Klimakonferenz von Paris umzusetzen, sind gewaltige Anstrengungen erforderlich – auch solche finanzieller Natur. Viele Staaten...