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State institutions and tax capacity : an empirical investigation of causality
Akanbi, Olusegun A. - 2019
Would better state institutions increase tax collection, or would higher tax collection help improve state institutions? In the absence of conclusive guidance from theory, this paper searches for an empirical answer to this question, using a panel dataset covering 110 non-resource-rich countries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012103602
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Tax evasion from cross-border fraud : does digitalization make a difference?
Kitsios, Emmanouil; Jalles, João Tovar; Verdier, Geneviève - 2020
revenues by over 1.5 percent of GDP in low-income developing countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012392581
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Fiscal Policy Through Time-Varying Tax Rates : If and How
Kaufman, Martin David - 2000
This paper investigates if there are circumstances where time-varying tax rates could improve welfare and whether such policy can effectively be implemented in practice. While, in principle, variable taxes could improve welfare in some cases, the paper highlights the very particular...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014400096
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A monthly indicator of economic growth for low income countries
Stanger, Michael - 2020
Monthly economic indicators support policy analysis of current economic developments and forecasting. This paper presents an overview of the data and statistical requirements to develop those indicators taking into account resource constraints that LIC typically face. We review statistical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012252734
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Impact of COVID-19 : nowcasting and big data to track economic activity in Sub-Saharan Africa
Buell, Brandon; Chen, Carissa; Chérif, Réda; Seo, … - 2021
that can be used to nowcast GDP and track changes in economic activity for countries in SSA. We make two main contributions … flexibility to incorporate mixed-frequency data variables. We present nowcast results for 2019Q4 and 2020Q1 GDP for Kenya, Nigeria …, South Africa, Uganda, and Ghana, and argue that our factor model methodology can be generalized to nowcast and forecast GDP …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012613515
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2020 global stocktaking of national accounts statistics : availability for policy and surveillance
Silungwe, Anthony; Baer, Andrew L.; Guerreiro, Vanda - 2022
of national accounts benchmarks, availability annual and quarterly GDP estimates, vintage of the System of National … Accounts (SNA), index formula used for calculating annual constant price (volume) estimates, availability of GDP by different … approaches, timeliness of disseminating and annual and quarterly GDP estimates, availability institutional sector accounts, and …
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On financing retirement, health, and long-term care in Japan
McGrattan, Ellen R.; Miyachi, Kazuaki; Peralta-Alva, Adrian - 2018
Japan faces the problem of how to finance retirement, health, and long-term care expenditures as the population ages …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011978385
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Corruption, taxes and compliance
Baum, Anja; Gupta, Sanjeev; Kimani, Elijah; Tapsoba, … - 2017
This paper revisits the effects of corruption on the state's capacity to raise revenue, building on the existing empirical literature using new and more disaggregated data. We use a comprehensive dataset for 147 countries spanning 1995-2014, compiled by the IMF. It finds that-consistent with the...
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The taxation and regulation of banks
Keen, Michael - 2011
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Modeling the impact of taxes on petroleum exploration and development
Smith, James L. - 2012
enhanced oil recovery and treats the impact of taxation on exploration and development in an integrated manner consistent with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009678956