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Tax revenue and economic growth in developing country : an autoregressive distribution lags approach

Maganya, Mnaku Honest - In: Central European economic journal 7 (2020) 54, pp. 205-217

economic growth and development through taxation. In the literature, the debate on how effective taxes are as a tool for … on economic growth. This article investigates the effect of taxation on economic growth in Tanzania using the recently …

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Demystifying rising income inequality influence on shadow economy : empirical evidence from Nigeria

Haruna, Emmanuel Umoru; Alhassan, Usman - In: Review of Economic Analysis : REA 14 (2022) 2, pp. 293-318

We investigate whether rising income disparity contributes to the proliferation of shadow economic activities in Nigeria. The study uses data from 1991 to 2018 and adopts the Auto-regressive Distributed Lags (ARDL) cointegration approach to study the effects of income inequality on the shadow...

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Growth-enhancing taxes

De Padua, David; Kiocho, Mae Hyacinth; Park, Donghyun - 2024

We investigate the conditions under which tax revenues can enhance economic growth. Using a newly constructed dataset consisting of 135 economies and spanning the period 1990-2019, we study how changes in tax revenues impact economic growth using a panel vector autoregression (PVAR) model. Tax...

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Priorities for strengthening key revenue sources in Asia

Gupta, Sanjeev; Jalles, João Tovar - In: Asian development review : studies of Asian and pacific … 40 (2023) 2, pp. 271-303

This paper discusses the evolution of key taxes during the past 20 years in developing Asia and the fiscal challenges that the region's economies face in light of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. It presents estimates of tax capacity and tax potential, and discusses the productivity...

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How do the tax burden and the fiscal space in Latin America look like? : evidence through Laffer Curves

Lozano-Espitia, Ignacio; Arias-Rodríguez, Fernando - In: Latin American economic review : LAER ; official … 30 (2021), pp. 1-26

How much fiscal space do Latin American countries have to increase their tax burdens in the long term? This paper provides an answer through Laffer curves estimates for taxes on labor, capital, and consumption for the six largest emerging economies of the region: Argentina, Brazil, Chile,...

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A comparison of the effects of capital and labour taxes in CEE countries

Krajewski, Piotr; Piłat, Katarzyna - In: Comparative economic research : Central and Eastern Europe 25 (2022) 3, pp. 27-42

the taxation of labour and capital. Although there is some heterogeneity in the magnitude and persistence of tax effects … between the analysed CEE countries, the simulations generally indicate that the negative impact of increased capital taxation … on GDP is stronger than for labour taxation. More importantly, however, the negative effects of higher taxation on …

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Policy misperceptions, information, and the demand for redistributive tax reform : experimental evidence from Latin American countries

Ardanaz, Martin; Hübscher, Evelyne; Keefer, Philip; … - 2022

Why do individuals' preferences for redistribution often diverge widely from their material self-interest? Using an original online survey experiment spanning eight countries and 12,000 respondents across Latin America, one of the most unequal regions in the world, we find significant evidence...

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Constraints or opportunities? : labor informality and public investment in shaping debt limits

Méndez-Vizcaíno, Juan Camilo; Moreno-Arias, Nicolás - 2023

This paper presents a comprehensive framework examining fiscal sustainabil- ity in developing economies. It integrates public capital, labor informality, and global liquidity shocks in a two-sector DSGE model for a small open economy, revealing their intricate interplay and nonlinear impact on...

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Fiscal DSGE model for Latvia

Buss, Ginters; Grüning, Patrick - In: Baltic journal of economics 23 (2023) 1, pp. 1-44

We develop a fiscal dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) model for policy simulation and scenario analysis purposes tailored to Latvia, a small open economy in a monetary union. The fiscal sector elements comprise public investment, public consumption, government transfers that are...

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Developing Asia's fiscal landscape and challenges

Go, Eugenia; Hill, Sam; Jaber, Maria Hanna; Jinjarak, Yothin - 2022

What are the salient features of developing Asia's tax revenues and public expenditures? How do these compare with other economies and how have they been affected by the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic? To analyze these issues we assemble data across economies drawing on a range of...

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