and spending. On average, the aid coefficients are positive but smaller than the tax coefficients, indicating that in the …

synthesizes and extends endogenous growth models with public finance to compare the growth and welfare maximizing tax rates … the range of trade-offs: the growth maximizing tax rate can lie above, below, or on the welfare maximizing equivalent. We … find however that even relatively large differences in growth and welfare maximizing tax rates translate into relatively …

This paper explores the fiscal effects of aid in Ethiopia, using national data from 1960 to 2009, which is a longer … following variables: aid grants, aid loans, tax revenue, non-tax revenue, and public expenditure. We also estimate an … between capital expenditure and grants; and both grants and loans are positively related to tax revenue, both in the long and …

efficiency of its tax system and the educational level of its population. Interestingly, some of the variables identified in …

household data for Ethiopia, that in fact use of formal institutions and ROSCAs can co-exist, even in the same household. We …

Taxation can contribute to state-building through a tax bargain in which taxpayers are willing to increase compliance … is argued that the fiscal state is weak, with low tax revenues and governments that are not accountable. However, since … the early 2000s, SSA countries on average have increased tax/GDP ratios significantly and there have also been increases …

This paper contributes to the literature on tax performance in sub-Saharan African countries. A standard model of the … determinants of tax revenue is augmented to include measures of indigenous pre-independence institutional structure constructed … institutions have an effect on tax performance in SSA that diminishes over time (as the economy grows and new institutions emerge). …