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This paper investigates the relationship between taxation and firm performance in developing countries. Taking firm-level data from the World Bank Enterprise Surveys (WBES) and tax data from the Government Revenue Dataset (ICTD/UNU-WIDER), our results suggest that tax revenue benefits to firm...
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. Exporting countries benefit from infrastructure projects rather than just liquid capital flows. Our results provide no …
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shown themselves to be adaptable to new service delivery needs that go beyond the original purpose of infrastructure …
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of a major road bridge to identify the impact of enhanced domestic transport infrastructure on agricultural market … that new infrastructure can enhance market performance, but such benefits are spatially limited. …
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industry. Infrastructure built for extractive industries can often be used by local populations and other economic activities …-client/multi-user extractive industry-related infrastructure projects. …
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applied to two datasets from Tanzania to assess, among others, the short- and long-term impacts of infrastructure and market …
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processing, and infrastructure, and finds that the policies used have mostly not lived up to expectations. Finally, the outline … use of infrastructure, (v) a strong role for local government, and (vi) accurate information and monitoring. …
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considers the aggregate and spatial effects of transport infrastructure improvements, and the relative benefits of financing … analysis, this paper simulates and compares the effects of (1) royalty rebates for infrastructure; (2) zero royalties for … infrastructure; and (3) government revenue-financed infrastructure improvements in South Africa and the rest of Southern Africa. The …
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quantitative data on Colombian infrastructure contracts, we demonstrate that municipalities exhibit an 'electoral contracting cycle … Marta, reinforce that infrastructure contractors provide a critical source of campaign finance and can create subnational …
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Do local improvements in infrastructure provision improve city competitiveness? What public finance mechanisms … stimulate local infrastructure supply? And how do local efforts compare with national decisions of placing inter-regional trunk … infrastructure? In this paper, we examine how the combination of local and national infrastructure supply improve city …
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