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Tony Addison at the 18th Plenary Meeting of the OECD Policy Dialogue on Natural Resource-based DevelopmentTony Addison represents UNU-WIDER as one of the invited partner organizations and institutions in the OECD’s Policy Dialogue on Natural Resources Development , which will take place online on 27-28 June 2022. This dialogue is part of the OECD...
Project workshop
Author workshop on detecting and countering illicit financial flowsThis project workshop brings together authors that were selected to produce research papers for the Detecting and countering illicit financial flows project, to discuss their papers. The workshop takes place online. Following the second call for...
Workshop
Stata intermediate course for revenue authoritiesAn online intermediate Stata course is provided to 21 participants, representing researchers and tax experts at the revenue authorities in Rwanda, Tanzania and Zambia, on 5-7 April 2022. Stata is a software for statistics and data science. The aim...
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Building up efficient and fair tax systems – lessons from RwandaThis project analyses administrative tax data in Rwanda to provide knowledge for better policy-making with respect to mobilizing public revenue for inclusive economic development. The project conducts new, policy-relevant research based on the...
Tax administration data SDG17 RwandaLecture
Kunal Sen on institutions and developmentUNU-WIDER Director Kunal Sen gives a lecture to the staff of the Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis ( KIPPRA ). The topic of the lecture is Institutions and development. In his presentation Kunal Sen will discuss the role of...
Project workshop
Domestic savings workshop for authors
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New tax research collaboration and additional SOUTHMOD model for Rwanda
Rwanda Tax administration data Tax-benefit microsimulation Research Brief
Blog
The tortoise defeats the hare: Does moderate outlast rapid growth in domestic revenue?The past four decades have seen marked improvements in the collection of domestic revenue (tax and non-tax revenues) in many countries of the Global South...
GRD Tax data Domestic revenue mobilizationWorking Paper
Global oil theft: impact and policy responsesThis paper, the first of two on global oil theft and fraud, discusses the prevalence, methods, and consequences of global oil theft, valued at US$133 billion per year and equivalent to 5–7 per cent of the global market for crude oil and petrole...
Oil Fuel CorruptionLearning
UNU-WIDER Winter School on tax policy researchUNU-WIDER is launching a Winter School on tax policy research. The aim of the course is to provide African researchers with an understanding of the theories, methods, and data availability for conducting high quality analysis on tax and development...
Tax policy Tax administration data ResearchProject
UNU-WIDER Winter School on tax policy research
Theme: Transforming societies
Capacity development Tax administration data SDG17Project
Building up efficient and fair tax systems – lessons based on administrative tax data
Theme: Transforming states
Taxation Administrative data Tax complianceWorking Paper
The dynamics of domestic revenue mobilization across four decadesWe utilize the recently updated UNU-WIDER Government Revenue Dataset, which covers key indicators on tax and non-tax revenues for 196 countries since the 1980s, to study the dynamics of government revenue tax collection across selected periods from 1...
Domestic revenue mobilization GRD TaxPolicy seminar
Tony Addison at the 17th Plenary Meeting of the OECD Policy Dialogue on Natural Resource-based DevelopmentTony Addison represents UNU-WIDER as one of the invited partner organizations and institutions in the OECD’s Policy Dialogue on Natural Resources Development , which will take place online on 14-15 December 2021. This dialogue is part of the...