This paper quantifies Guinea-Bissau’s tax potential using a stochastic frontier model and investigates the underlying sources of untapped revenue. Beyond benchmarking performance against structural peers, it tackles the complex drivers of low revenue mobilization, including high informality,...

Domestic Revenue Mobilization (DRM) is essential for financing economic and social development and ensuring debt sustainability in WAEMU, particularly in light of rising interest, high security spending, and the prospective reduction in foreign aid. While DRM has generally improved over the past...

'The Domestic Savings Shortfall in Sub-Saharan Africa' increases knowledge about the key drivers of domestic saving rates in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), as well as whether alternative approaches, such as pension funds or fintech, could provide new solutions to increase domestic savings.

"In this book we motivate the theme of the book. We first introduce the conceptual framework used in the country studies, drawing on the life-cycle model of savings. We also discuss some policy issues relevant to the sub-Saharan African context. We then provide an overview of the analytical...

The inclusion of domestic (intra-national) trade when estimating structural gravity models is an important topic and has been shown to solve empirical puzzles such as the missing globalization puzzle (Yotov, 2022). Despite efforts to construct intra-national trade data, its measurement still...

The inclusion of domestic (intra-national) trade when estimating structural gravity models is an important topic and has been shown to solve empirical puzzles such as the missing globalization puzzle (Yotov, 2022). Despite efforts to construct intra-national trade data, its measurement still...