Search Results - subject:"export taxation"

Agricultural Price Distortions: Trends and Volatility, Past and Prospective

Anderson, Kym - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2013

Historically, earnings from farming in many developing countries have been depressed by a pro-urban bias in own-country policies, as well as by governments of richer countries favouring their farmers with import barriers and subsidies. Both sets of policies reduced global economic welfare and...

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Export Tax and Pricing Power; Two Hypotheseson the Cocoa Market in Côte D’Ivoire

Kireyev, Alexei - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2010

The paper models export taxation of a primary commodity in a large country under two hypotheses about the structure of … influence domestic prices. For both hypotheses, export taxation can be justified on efficiency grounds only for the country that …-reducing for its trading partners. The models of export taxation for both hypotheses are calibrated for the illustrative case of …

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Agricultural Price Distortions: Trends and Volatility, Past and Prospective

Anderson, Kym - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

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A Quest for Revenue and Tax Incidence in Uganda

Matovu, John; Chen, Duanjie; Reinikka-Soininen, Ritva - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2001

This paper examines tax policy and tax reforms in Uganda. Using household survey evidence, the paper identifies which taxes are progressive and investigates whether tax reforms have made the poor better or worse off. Household survey analysis reveals that some of the tax reforms implemented in...

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Indirect Taxation in Developing Countries; A General Equilibrium Approach

Bovenberg, Ary Lars - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 1986

Indirect taxes are an important element in stabilization tax packages that aim at raising revenue in the short run. This paper evaluates, by using a general equilibrium model, alternative instruments of indirect taxation in middle-income developing countries. It uses data for Thailand as an...

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