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Is there a fiscal resource curse?: Resource rents, fiscal capacity, and political institutions in developing economiesStates’ fiscal capacity plays a pivotal role in developing economies, but it is less clear what its determinants are or what explains cross-country differences. We focus on the impact of natural resources...
State capacity Fiscal capacity Resource curseProject
Structural transformation — old and new paths to economic development
Theme: Transforming economies
Structural transformation Economic developmentBook Chapter
Development and poverty in sub-Saharan AfricaWhen it comes to reporting on Africa, the international news media has, over time, delivered very mixed messages. Yet there are still many who characterize sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) as a region of hunger, economic crisis, and political unrest...
Sub-Saharan Africa Economic development TransformationJournal Article
How does petty corruption affect tax morale in sub-Saharan Africa?Revenues from taxation gain in importance to finance economic development in Sub-Saharan Africa. One obstacle to enhancing the willingness to remit taxes can be the extortion of bribes by public officials...
Corruption Tax Economic developmentWorking Paper
Educational mobility in developing countriesThis paper reviews the small but growing literature on intergenerational educational mobility in the developing world...
Educational mobility Developing countries Educational expansionJournal Article
What determines administrative capacity in developing countries?Part of Journal Special Issue Public economics and development action
State capacity Administrative capacity Public finance managementWorking Paper
Social norms as a barrier to women’s employment in developing countriesThis paper discusses cultural barriers to women’s participation and success in the labor market in developing countries...
Culture Institutions Developing countriesJournal Article
Agricultural extension, intra-household allocation and malariaCan agricultural development programs improve health-related outcomes? We exploit a spatial discontinuity in the coverage of a large-scale agricultural extensionprogram in Uganda to causally identify its effects on malaria...
Administrative law Agriculture Economic developmentJournal Article
The Effects of the Value-Added Tax on Revenue and InequalityThis paper examines the impact of the introduction of the value-added tax on inequality and government revenues using newly released macro data...
Economic development Equality and inequality TaxationProject
Clientelist politics and economic development – theories, perspectives and new directions
Theme: Transforming states
Clientelism Politics Economic developmentWorking Paper
Empirical challenges comparing inequality across countries: The case of middle-income countries from the LIS databaseThis study presents new empirical results, using microdata from the LIS database, on development patterns in economic inequality for a set of countries that are less covered in the empirical literature, mostly due to the lack of appropriate data...
Economic development Equality Middle-income countriesBook Chapter
Understanding and characterizing the services sector in South Africa: an overviewFrom the book: Industries without Smokestacks
Services Economic development South AfricaBook Chapter
Career dynamics and gender gaps among employees in the microfinance sectorFrom the book: Towards Gender Equity in Development
Gender gap Job mobility PromotionJournal Article
Exploring regional and gender disparities in Beninese primary school attendance: A multilevel approachDHS data is combined with school supply statistics to study primary school attendance in the 2005–06 school year in Benin, a country that has seen almost unparalleled increases in attendance since the 1990s...
Economic development Demand for schooling AfricaJournal Article
Introduction: Fiscal Policy, State Building and Economic DevelopmentPart of Journal Special Issue Fiscal Policy, State Building and Economic Development
Tax policy Economic development Developing countriesJournal 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 Taxation