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Journal Article: How polarized is the global income distribution?

The interest in the level of global inequality has surged in recent years. This paper complements existing estimates of global inequality by providing the first estimates of the level of bipolarization of the global income distribution.
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Policy Brief: The business environment of Mozambican manufacturing firms

The 2017 Survey of Mozambican Manufacturing Firms builds on data collected in 2012 from surviving firms to trace how changing economic conditions have affected the development of firms over five years.

Inclusive growth in Mozambique – scaling-up research and capacity

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Journal Special Issue: Fiscal Policy, State Building and Economic Development

This journal presents a synopsis of the contextual conditions, factors and challenges under which the recent evolution of tax systems has taken place. The journal, as the studies in this collection, gives special emphasis to the role natural endowments, p
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New data, new approaches and new evidence: A policy synthesis

Part of Journal Special Issue Firm level analysis using administrative record data

Firm-level analysis South Africa data
Journal Article
Job flows, worker flows and churning in South Africa

Part of Journal Special Issue Firm level analysis using administrative record data

Firm-level analysis data South Africa
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Markups and concentration in South African manufacturing sectors: An analysis with administrative data

Part of Journal Special Issue Firm level analysis using administrative record data

Firm level analysis South Africa data
Journal Article
Understanding manufactured exporters at the firm-level: New insights from using SARS administrative data

Part of Journal Special Issue Firm level analysis using administrative record data

Firm-level analysis South Africa data
Journal Article
Importing and firm export performance: New evidence from South Africa

Part of Journal Special Issue Firm level analysis using administrative record data

Firm-level analysis South Africa data
Journal Article
Total factor productivity in South African manufacturing firms

Part of Journal Special Issue Firm level analysis using administrative record data

Firm-level analysis South Africa data
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Introduction to the South African Revenue Service and National Treasury firm-level panel

Part of Journal Special Issue Firm level analysis using administrative record data

Firm-level analysis South Africa data
Journal Article
Introduction: Firm level analysis with administrative data

Part of Journal Special Issue Firm level analysis using administrative record data

Firm-level analysis South Africa data
Journal Special Issue
Firm level analysis using administrative record data

This special issue focuses on a collaborative effort between the National Treasury and the South African Revenue Service (SARS) to employ administrative record data from SARS for economic policy analysis...

Firm-level analysis South Africa Economic policy
Working Paper
Toward closer cohesion of international tax statistics: The ICTD/UNU-WIDER GRD 2017

The 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 data
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Tax, development and the SDGs: How we are supporting the data revolution

At the core of efforts to meet the Sustainable Development Goals lies a commitment to enhance domestic revenue mobilization. Strengthening capacity to collect tax and other revenue is key for developing countries as they move forward...

Tax Development data
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Opening the vault: Data, research, and improved policymaking in South Africa

Policymakers often work in the dark, as they try to make real impact on people’s lives. If you don’t have good data, being worked on by good researchers, it can be hard to know whether efforts are truly making a difference...

Tax data firms
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