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Data for better policies: Introducing the Government Revenue Dataset 2020
Thanks to the updated version of the Government Revenue Dataset ( GRD ) we are now able to gain a clear picture of tax and other revenue trends in over 190 countries over the past four decades, now up until 2018...
Government revenue Taxation DataReport
SOUTHMOD country report Ghana - GHAMOD v2.0This report documents GHAMOD, the SOUTHMOD model developed for Ghana. The report describes the different tax-benefit policies in place, how the microsimulation model picks up these different provisions, and the database on which the model runs...
Taxation Government revenue GHAMODReport
SOUTHMOD country report Zambia - MicroZAMOD v2.4This report documents MicroZAMOD, the SOUTHMOD micrososimulation model developed for Zambia...
Taxation Government revenue MicroZAMODReport
SOUTHMOD country report Uganda - UGAMOD v1.4This report documents UGAMOD, the SOUTHMOD model developed for Uganda...
SOUTHMOD UGAMOD TaxationBlog
International tax avoidance and development
Corporate taxation is at the heart of economic development, and cardiac failure looms if international tax reform is not made globally inclusive There is a close link between a country’s economic development and its capacity to collect tax reve...
International taxation Tax avoidance Tax havensReport
SOUTHMOD country report Uganda - UGAMOD v1.1View the latest UGAMOD country report here . This report documents UGAMOD, the SOUTHMOD model developed for Uganda. This work was carried out by Uganda Revenue Authority ( URA ) and Makerere University in collaboration with the project partners...
SOUTHMOD UGAMOD TaxReport
SOUTHMOD country report Tanzania - TAZMOD v1.8This report documents TAZMOD, the SOUTHMOD model developed for Tanzania. This work was carried out by University of Dar es Salaam in collaboration with the project partners in the scope of the SOUTHMOD project...
TAZMOD SOUTHMOD TaxReport
SOUTHMOD country report Ghana - GHAMOD v1.3View the latest GHAMOD country report here . This report documents GHAMOD, the SOUTHMOD model developed for Ghana...
Tax Government revenue GHAMODBlog
Revenue data like you’ve never seen it before: Introducing the GRD Explorer Let’s face it, data is important. It sits at the core of almost everything that we in the development economics research community do. However, the way in which we use, share, understand, interpret and present data is more important still...
Government revenue Taxation DataJournal Article
Does the Political Resource Curse Affect Public Finance? The Vulnerability of Tax Revenue in Resource-Dependent CountriesPart of Journal Special Issue Fiscal Policy, State Building and Economic Development
Taxes Natural resources Terms-of-trade shocksBlog
Information asymmetries in extractive industries: What can be done?
In the second part of this blog, Alan R. Roe discusses what is known about the informational failures that pose challenges for governments in projecting revenues from extractive industries. Read the first part here ...
Extractive industries Government revenueBlog
Forecasting revenues from extractive industries: Information asymmetries and other disadvantages of host governments In the first part of this blog, Alan R. Roe writes about the difficulties governments face in predicting revenues from extractive industries. Read part two here ...
Extractive industries Government revenueNews
New collaborative programme focusing on economic transformation and inequality launched with South African government and other regional organizations
Structural economic transformation Economic inequality Employment and Industry Report
SOUTHMOD country report Ethiopia - ETMOD v1.0This report documents ETMOD, the SOUTHMOD model developed for Ethiopia...
Tax Government revenue Government spending policyReport
SOUTHMOD country report Ghana - GHAMOD v1.0View the latest GHAMOD country report here . This report documents GHAMOD, the SOUTHMOD model developed for Ghana...
Tax Government revenue Government spending policyReport
SOUTHMOD country report Ecuador - ECUAMOD v1.0View the latest ECUAMOD country report here . This report documents ECUAMOD, the SOUTHMOD micrososimulation model developed for Ecuador...
Tax Government revenue Government spending policy