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Fiscal Pressure of Migration and Horizontal Fiscal Inequality: Evidence from Indian ExperienceThis article examines the patterns and trends in inter‐State migration across the Indian States and observes that along with the demographic factors, migration is also affected by the fiscal profile of States...
Migration Inequality DemographyBook Chapter
The copper sector, fiscal rules, and stabilization funds in Chile: Scope and limitsFrom the book: Extractive Industries
Fiscal policy Natural resources WealthWorking Paper
Extractives for development: Ten main messagesCountries face both challenges and opportunities in using their extractive industries to achieve more inclusive development—particularly in the developing world...
Extractive industries resource wealth Resource curseWorking Paper
Revisiting the impact of direct taxes and transfers on poverty and inequality in South AfricaThis paper uses a recent household survey and the CEQ framework to revisit and extend previous research on the impact of fiscal policy on income redistribution, and poverty in South Africa...
Fiscal policy Fiscal incidence taxesJournal Article
Tax Structures and Economic Growth: New Evidence from the Government Revenue DatasetPart of Journal Special Issue Fiscal Policy, State Building and Economic Development
Economic growth Fiscal policy DevelopmentJournal Special Issue
Fiscal Policy, State Building and Economic DevelopmentThis journal presents a synopsis of the contextual conditions, factors and challenges under which the recent evolution of tax systems has taken place, as an introduction to this United Nations University-World Institute for Development Economics Rese...
Fiscal policy Economic development TaxationWorking Paper
Fiscal pressure of migration & horizontal fiscal inequality: Evidence from Indian experienceThis paper examines the patterns and trends in inter-state migration across Indian states and observes that migration is affected by demographic profile as well as the fiscal profile of states...
Migration Inequality DemographyReport
SOUTHMOD country report Mozambique - MOZMOD v2.0This report documents MOZMOD, the SOUTHMOD model developed for Mozambique. This work was carried out by the Ministry of Economy and Finance of Mozambique in collaboration with the project partners in the scope of the SOUTHMOD project...
Fiscal policy Revenue TaxationWorking Paper
Toward closer cohesion of international tax statistics: The ICTD/UNU-WIDER GRD 2017The Government Revenue Dataset (GRD) was launched in September 2014 and, in the few years since, has gone on to be recognized as the go-to source for researchers and policymakers seeking cross-country data on government revenues and taxes...
Tax Fiscal policy dataWorking Paper
The copper sector, fiscal rules, and stabilization funds in Chile: Scope and limitsHistorically, Chile has been an economy dominated by mineral and agro-industrial products and subject to frequent external shocks particularly in copper prices...
Fiscal policy Natural resources WealthWorking Paper
Tax structures and economic growth: New evidence from the Government Revenue DatasetRecent work on the relationship between tax structure and economic growth has offered little reliable evidence for developing countries...
Economic growth Fiscal policy DevelopmentBlog
Will Norway’s model of Sovereign Wealth Fund work in Tanzania?: A reality check
Several countries in Africa – including Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique, Tanzania, and Uganda - have recently discovered large oil and gas or other mineral resources...
Economic assistance and foreign aid Fiscal policy Mineral industriesWorking Paper
An inquiry into the political economy of the global clean energy transition policies and Nigeria’s federal and state governments’ fiscal policiesIn order to implement clean energy transition programmes, the national and sub-national governments in Nigeria will incur some cost. In the same way, failure to implement the policies will come with some costs...
Fiscal policy Nonrenewable natural resources Renewable energy sourcesWorking Paper
Tax-benefit microsimulation modelling in Mozambique: A feasibility studyThis paper assesses the feasibility of developing a tax and benefit microsimulation model in Mozambique...
Fiscal policy Revenue TaxationBook Chapter
Gender, Economic Growth, and Development in Sub-Saharan AfricaFrom the book: Oxford Handbook of Africa and Economics, Vol. 2...
Economic development Fiscal policy Income distributionBlog
Inequality in Latin America and the Importance of Data - An Interview with Nora Lustig
In this interview Professor Nora Lustig , Samuel Z...
Education Equality and inequality Fiscal policy