A central aspect of institutional development in less developed economies is building tax systems capable of raising revenues from broad tax bases, i.e., fiscal capacity. While it is recognised in the literature that fiscal capacity is pivotal for state building and economic development, it is...

A central aspect of institutional development in developing economies is building tax systems capable of raising revenues from broad tax bases, i.e., fiscal capacity. While it is recognised that fiscal capacity is pivotal for state building and economic development, it is less clear what its...

The editor has assembled a stellar group of experts to write about their areas of expertise. Topics include bureaucracy, corruption and tax compliance, public finance in developing economies, taxation in several former Soviet republics, Eastern Europe and China, taxation in the enlarged European...