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Welfare effects of indirect tax policies in West Africa
Babatoundé, Alain; Capéau, Bart; Houssa, Romain - 2023
In West Africa, the Value Added Tax (VAT) policy consists of a uniform tax rate, but several items consumed by rich and poor households, are exempted. We provide an optimal tax framework to reflect on the welfare effects of such a tariff structure, in the context of current debates on domestic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014251962
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Welfare Effects of Indirect Tax Policies in West Africa
Babatoundé, Alain; Capéau, Bart; Houssa, Romain - 2023
In West Africa, the Value Added Tax (VAT) policy consists of a uniform tax rate, but several items consumed by rich and poor households, are exempted. We provide an optimal tax framework to reflect on the welfare effects of such a tariff structure, in the context of current debates on domestic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014357634
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Is Tax Policy Retarding Growth in Morocco?
Tatom, John - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Morocco has a distinguished reputation for opening the economy, privatization and for increasing the role of the … accelerated investment, both domestically and by foreigners. One highly important potential impediment to growth is that Morocco … are opportunities there to accelerate productivity and growth through tax reform. Morocco has extremely high taxes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005786997
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Is Tax Policy Retarding Growth in Morocco?
Tatom, John A. - Networks Financial Institute, Scott College of Business - 2007
Morocco has a distinguished reputation for opening the economy, privatization and for increasing the role of the … accelerated investment, both domestically and by foreigners. One highly important potential impediment to growth is that Morocco … are opportunities there to accelerate productivity and growth through tax reform. Morocco has extremely high taxes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010817356
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Growth effects of fiscal policies : a comparative analysis in a multi-country context
Brons, Martijn; Groot, Henri L. F. de; Nijkamp, Peter - 1999
The potential interactions among fiscal policies, investments and economicgrowth are complex and manifold.In this paper, we will perform a systematic comparative analysis of the variouseconomic insights that arecurrently available on these complex relationships, both theoretically (by aselective...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011301152
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New evidence from the Government Revenue Dataset
McNabb, Kyle - International Centre for Tax and Development - 2016
Recent work on the relationship between tax structure and economic growth has offered little reliable evidence for developing countries. Yet it is in such countries where the greatest changes in tax structure not only have been seen over the past 30 years but will likely continue to be seen in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011573226
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Does aid hinder tax efforts? : more evidence
Alonso, José Antonio; Garcimartín Alférez, Carlos - 2011
During recent years, new doubts about the effectiveness of international aid have emerged. One of the arguments employed to justify this sceptical view is that aid can hinder tax effort in developing countries. Nevertheless, empirical research on the aid-tax nexus is inconclusive and it shows...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009158708
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Taxation and Development - Again
Keen, Michael - 2012
Issues of taxation and development, which have long been a central concern of the IMF, have attracted wider and renewed interest in the last few years. This paper reflects on three broad lessons of experience: that developing countries differ vastly in tax matters, and in ways that are less than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013098586
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Endogenous Public Policy and Long-Run Growth
Koulovatianos, Christos; Mirman, Leonard J. - 2004
We study the determinants of voting outcomes on the provision of public consumption through marginal income taxes in the context of the simple linear growth model. We focus on how the dynamic politicoeconomic equilibrium maps the economic fundamentals to policies and long-run growth. We find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014073361
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Endogenous Public Policy and Long-Run Growth : Some Simple Analytics
Koulovatianos, Christos; Mirman, Leonard J. - 2006
We study the determinants of voting outcomes on the provision of public consumption through marginal income taxes in the context of the simple linear growth model. We provide analytical results on how the dynamic politicoeconomic equilibrium maps the economic fundamentals to policies and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014066719