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Whiledemand estimates are used in policy making in a number of areas, there has not been a substantialliterature on demandpatterns and responsesin Pakistan. We present estimates for thirteen classesof goods, basedon a completedemand system, a modification of the Unear Expenditure...

The assumption, which is common in tax analysis, that producer prices are undistorted may not be appropriate, particularly for developing countries. Where shadow prices (social opportunity costs) and market prices differ, one must replace "revenue" in the "social marginal cost of revenue" (a...

This paper evaluates consequences of taxation policy changes in· terms of effects on government revenue, households and production. It concentrates on derivation and analysis of effective taxes. The revised economy-wide input-output table prepared at the Pakistan Institute of Development...

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We present a framework for the analysis of tax and benefit policy in countries with significant informality. Our framework allows us to jointly analyse the effects of various taxes and benefits on incentives for firms and workers to be informal and evade taxation. We find that payroll taxes and...