This working paper explores avenues to improve public sector efficiency in Latvia, a catching-up and ageing economy where spending needs are large. Ensuring that spending allocated to core services (e.g. education, healthcare) is adequate to achieve convergence of policy outcomes to OECD upper...

This paper studies the role of fiscal policies and institutions in building resilience in sub-Saharan African countries during 1990-2013, with specific emphasis on a group of twenty-six countries that were deemed fragile in the 1990s. As the drivers of fragility and resilience are closely...

A autoridade tributária e aduaneira na gestão da fronteira externa da União Europeia / Ana Paula Caliço Raposo -- Notas breves sobre a al. b) do no 10 do art. 51 do CIRC : a "distância entre a intenção e o gesto" / António Lobo Xavier -- A complexidade das opções de tributação em...

"How did today's rich states first establish modern fiscal systems? To answer this question, Political Transformations and Public Finances by Mark Dincecco examines the evolution of political regimes and public finances in Europe over the long term. The book argues that the emergence of...