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Tax and development - What can we learn from the Finnish experience?

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Measuring poverty and wellbeing in developing countries

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Mining’s contribution to low- and middle-income economies

In several low- and middle-income countries with important extractive sectors, gross national income has developed favourably. Africa has benefitted most, particularly West Africa...

Mining Development Tax revenue
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Tax revenues in transition countries: Structural changes and their policy implications

Changes in the tax structure and category of taxes clearly matter when it comes to initiating tax policies. This paper employs data from a sample of 33 transitional countries over the period 1991–2014...

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