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Could a well-designed customs reforms remove the trade-off between revenue collection and trade facilitation?

Raballand, Gael; Marteau, Jean-François; Mjekiqi, Edmond; … - 2009

This paper is based on first-hand experience from Customs reforms in Sub Saharan Africa (SSA) and presents unpublished … data on the impact of Customs reforms on revenues, trade facilitation, private sector operators and frontline Customs … officials' behaviors in Africa. Customs agencies are usually one of the key revenue collection agencies in Africa. Customs …

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Inequality, infrastructure, and institutions: Empirical studies in public economics and political economy

Dorn, Florian - 2021

Florian Dorn prepared this study during his doctoral studies at the Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich (LMU). The study was completed in September 2020 and accepted as doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics. This dissertation contributes to the empirics of public economics and...

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Effect of the complexity of the customs tax system on the tax effort

González Aguirre, Jazmín; del Villar, Alberto - In: Economies 10 (2022) 3, pp. 1-17

, public expenditure, and the capacity of the statistical system, on the efficiency of Ecuadorian Customs Administration. For …

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Glimpses of fiscal states in sub-Saharan Africa

Moore, Mick - 2021

There is a widespread perception that taxing in sub-Saharan Africa has been and remains fraught with problems or government failure. This is not generally true. For more than a century, colonial administrations and independent states have steadily developed the capacity to routinely collect more...

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The Role of IPSAS Application in Meeting Voters Yearnings

Babatunde, Shakirat Adepeju - In: Journal of Accounting and Management Information … 23 (2024) 1, pp. 134-161

Research Question- How does the IPSAS application affect Accountability and government effectiveness in Nigeria? Motivation- Inadequate disclosure of public account information has made a mess of public resources management regarding accountability and government effectiveness, necessitating...

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Gender gap in politician performance and its determinants

Garcia-Hernandez, Ana; Grossman, Guy; Michelitch, Kristin - 2022

Women politicians face barriers that can undermine their performance relative to men. Using original micro-data from Uganda, we test for gender gaps in performance across different job duties in subnational legislatures. We hypothesize, and find, that performance gender gaps are greatest in job...

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Collaborative governance outcomes and obstacles: Evidence from Portuguese armed forces

Moreno, Diogo; Gonçalves, Tiago Cruz - In: Cogent Business & Management 8 (2021) 1, pp. 1-11

The shortage of resources, which threats the accomplishment of the Armed Forces' Missions, has urged them to increase their Branches' integration to improve their efficiency as a whole. However, previous research pinpointed several issues in the Portuguese Armed Forces' (PAF) governance that...

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What Are the Priorities of Bureaucrats? Evidence from Conjoint Experiments with Procurement Officials

Tukiainen, Janne; Blesse, Sebastian; Bohne, Albrecht; … - 2023

While effective bureaucracy is crucial for state capacity, its decision-making remains a black box. We elicit preferences of 900+ real-world public procurement officials in Finland and Germany. This is an important pursuit as they report having sizeable discretion and minimal extrinsic...

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Indirect Savings from Public Procurement Centralization

Lotti, Clarissa; Muço, Arieda; Spagnolo, Giancarlo; … - 2023

Centralization of public procurement can lower prices for the government's direct purchase of goods and services. This paper focuses on indirect savings. Public administrations that do not procure directly through a central procurement agency might benefit from the availability of...

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ICT and local e-governance in planning regions in North Macedonia

Chungurski, Slavcho; Mitrevski, Pece - In: UTMS Journal of Economics 11 (2020) 1, pp. 29-42

Emerging trends in Europe suggest a review of the current thinking on e-governance, focusing on greater quality and efficiency in public services, especially when taking a European and prospective approach, as North Macedonia is trying to take. The paper shows a results of conducted survey about...

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