An April 2015 World Bank report on attainment of the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) extreme poverty target has revealed that extreme poverty has been decreasing in all regions of the world with the exception of sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), in spite of the sub-region enjoying more than two...

Any government is interested in knowing, to a certain extent degree, the level of tax revenue at a given time in order to design public expenditures. On the other hand, this level of budget revenue is desirable to be sustainable, i.e. to be supported by the existing economi c conditions at a...

The paper is aimed at investigating the factors affecting the level of private deposits in banks in Russian regions and the verification of various theoretical concepts of personal savings. To achieve this purpose, we built a set of alternative Cobb-Douglas-type regressions with fixed time...

Any government is interested in knowing, to a certain extent degree, the level of tax revenue at a given time in order to design public expenditures. On the other hand, this level of budget revenue is desirable to be sustainable, i.e. to be supported by the existing economi c conditions at a...

This paper aims to study the determinants of financial deepening (FD) in Mexico. FD is measured as the fraction of total credit assigned to private sector as a proportion of GDP. The explanatory variables include: enforcing contracts (rule of law) and institutions; bank regulation; bank...

The paper is aimed at investigating the factors affecting the level of private deposits in banks in Russian regions and the verification of various theoretical concepts of personal savings. To achieve this purpose, we built a set of alternative Cobb-Douglas-type regressions with fixed time...