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Domestic revenue mobilization
Seminar
Unsplash / Olga Delawrence Neryvia Pillay Bell and Harry Kemp on the elasticity of taxable income, new data and estimates for South Africa.
17 November 2020
Online, South Africa
Past event
Presentation
Maria Jouste on Tax for Development

Maria Jouste , UNU-WIDER Research Associate, will give a presentation at the Tax for Development webinar series on 17 November 2020 (CET). The webinar series is hosted by Chr. Michelsen Institute . The topic of Jouste's presentation will be...

17 November 2020
Past event
Project workshop
Detecting and countering illicit financial flows - project workshop
12 November 2020
Past event
Presentation
Maria Jouste at the North East Universities Development Consortium

Maria Jouste , UNU-WIDER Research Associate, will present a research paper at the North East Universities Development Consortium on 6 November 2020. The virtual conference, hosted by Dartmouth College , will be held 6-7 November (EST). The topic of...

6 November 2020
Past event
Project workshop
Extractive Industries: Taxation and Revenues
5 November 2020
Zoom, Finland
Past event
Working Paper
Taxing extractive resources in the transition to a low-carbon future

This paper explores the potential impacts of the transition to a low-carbon future for the taxation of extractive resources...

Taxation Climate change low-carbon future
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Domestic Revenue Mobilization programme

The aim of UNU-WIDER’s Domestic Revenue Mobilization (DRM) programme is to help improve developing countries’ tax systems and to strengthen their domestic capacities for revenue collection. Efficient domestic resource mobilization will...

Domestic revenue mobilization
Blog
International tax research: Why does more than numbers matter

Can tax research be inspiring? Looking back at the three years of collaboration between UNU-WIDER and the Uganda Revenue Authority ( URA ), the answer is yes – but even that is just the start...

Taxation Administrative data Domestic revenue mobilization
Project
Photo: Dion Beetson on Unsplash Extractives for Development (E4D) – risks and opportunities

Theme: Transforming states

Extractives Oil and gas Mining
Project
Photo by rupixen.com on Unsplash Detecting and countering illicit financial flows

Theme: Transforming states

IFFs tax avoidance Norad
Project
Photo by Clay Banks on Unsplash Fiscal states – the origins and developmental implications

Theme: Transforming states

fiscal capacity Taxation Building State Capabilities
Project
The domestic savings shortfall in developing countries project 2020 search photo The domestic savings shortfall in developing countries – what can be done about it?

Theme: Transforming states

Domestic savings Domestic revenue mobilization Economic growth
Project
SOUTHMOD - simulating tax and benefit policies for development Phase 2

Theme: Transforming states

SOUTHMOD Tax-benefit microsimulation tax-benefit policy
Project
Building up efficient and fair tax systems project 2020 search photo Building up efficient and fair tax systems – lessons based on administrative tax data

Theme: Transforming states

Taxation Administrative data Tax compliance
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UNU-WIDER and Norad agree on new USD 10 million research and capacity-building programme on domestic revenue mobilization Domestic revenue mobilization
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