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Fiscal states in sub-Saharan Africa: conceptualization and empirical trendsThis paper contributes to the debate on domestic revenue mobilization and state-building in the Global South by asking whether there are fiscal states in sub-Saharan Africa...
Fiscal states Sub-Saharan Africa TaxationWorking Paper
No taxation without informational foundation: On the role of legibility in tax state developmentThis paper combines cross-national statistical analysis and in-depth historical case studies of Argentina and Chile to explore the relationship between two crucial dimensions of state capacity...
State capacity Information Fiscal capacityWorking Paper
No taxation without property rights: Formalization of property rights on land and tax revenues from individuals in sub-Saharan AfricaThe arguments that property rights and taxation positively affect development are well established in separate literatures, but the link between property rights and taxation is under-studied...
Property rights Taxation Sub-Saharan AfricaProject workshop
Work-in-progress meeting on tax research collaboration in ZambiaAs part of the Building up efficient and fair tax systems – lessons based on administrative tax data project, a work-in progress meeting was held online between UNU-WIDER, Zambia Institute for Policy Analysis & Research ( ZIPAR ) and...
News
Understanding taxpayer behaviour better – New data research collaboration in Zambia
Taxation Tax administration data Zambia Report
SOUTHMOD country report Ghana - GHAMOD v2.3This 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 Ecuador - ECUAMOD v2.0This report documents ECUAMOD, the SOUTHMOD micrososimulation model developed for Ecuador...
Taxes Benefits MicrosimulationReport
SOUTHMOD country report Mozambique - MOZMOD v2.6aThis report documents MOZMOD, the SOUTHMOD model developed for Mozambique. It 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...
Fiscal policy Revenues TaxationNews
Building up fair taxation – New data research collaboration in Tanzania
Taxation Tanzania Administrative capacity News
New release of the Government Revenue Dataset (GRD) covers up to 40 years of tax and revenue data
GRD Government revenue Database Blog
Co-creation for fair and efficient taxation: Research recommendations to improve policiesHow can we determine the taxation of wage earners or multinational corporations in a fair manner? Will simplifying tax administration help increase tax compliance in a low-income country context?...
Taxation Administrative data Domestic revenue mobilizationPresentation
Tax data work in Tanzania presented at the Nordic Development ConferenceHeikki Palviainen, Doctoral Researcher at the Tampere University , presented the collaborative research paper on the Effects of a Risk-based Approach to Tax Examinations in Tanzania , at the Nordic Development Conference ( NCDE ) on 16 June 2021...
Project workshop
Project workshop: Fiscal states – the origins and development implications
Project workshop
Tax and development workshopThe Tax and Development workshop will bring together researchers, tax experts and practitioners to exchange experiences on using administrative tax data in their respective countries for research purposes. The event will be attended by 40 experts...
Blog
Data for better tax policy analysis: Introducing the latest version of the Government Revenue Dataset
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, up until 2018...
Government revenue Taxation DataPresentation
Maria Jouste on Tax for DevelopmentMaria 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...