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Report: Towards peace, decent work, and greater equality

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Toward closer cohesion of international tax statistics

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 policy makers seeking cross-country data on government revenues and taxes. However...

  • Tax
  • Fiscal policy
  • Data
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Tax, development and the SDGs: How we are supporting the data revolution
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by Kyle McNabb June 2017

At the core of efforts to meet the Sustainable Development Goals lies a commitment to enhance domestic revenue mobilization. Strengthening capacity to...

  • Tax
  • Development
  • Data
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Assessing the quality of the income data used in SAMOD, a South African tax-benefit microsimulation model

In this paper we explore the income data in two surveys that underpin a South African tax-benefit microsimulation model. The simulated taxes and benefits using each dataset are compared with each other and with administrative data for a common time...

  • Tax-benefit microsimulation
  • Income distribution
  • Data
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Revenue data like you’ve never seen it before: Introducing the GRD Explorer
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by Kyle McNabb January 2019

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...

  • Government revenue
  • Taxation
  • Data
Working Paper
Trade liberalization and South African manufacturing

This paper provides a retrospective assessment of the effects of trade policies on South African manufacturing since the transition to democracy, examining the differences and commonalities in the views of economists in favour of and against an...

  • Trade policy
  • Manufacturing
  • Trade liberalization
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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. It contains six research articles plus a...

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  • South Africa
  • Economic policy
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Introduction

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

  • Firm-level analysis
  • South Africa
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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
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Total factor productivity in South African manufacturing firms

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  • Firm-level analysis
  • South Africa
  • Data
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Importing and firm export performance

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  • Firm-level analysis
  • South Africa
  • Data
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Understanding manufactured exporters at the firm-level

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  • Firm-level analysis
  • South Africa
  • Data
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Markups and concentration in South African manufacturing sectors

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  • South Africa
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Job flows, worker flows and churning in South Africa

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New data, new approaches and new evidence

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Bootcamp for better tax policies in Africa
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by Amina Ebrahim June 2022

‘I intend to see a world in which tax policy research is based on evidence, and policy decisions are data-driven.’ This is an aspiration expressed by...

  • Tax compliance
  • Capacity building
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