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SOUTHMOD country report Ecuador - ECUAMOD v1.0

View the latest ECUAMOD country report here . This report documents ECUAMOD, the SOUTHMOD micrososimulation model developed for Ecuador. This work was carried out by the ISER in collaboration with the Instituto de Altos Estudios Nacionales and UNU...

  • Tax
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  • Government spending policy
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SOUTHMOD country report Ghana - GHAMOD v1.3

View the latest GHAMOD country report here . This report documents GHAMOD, the SOUTHMOD model developed for Ghana. This work was carried out by the Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER) and the University of Tampere in...

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SOUTHMOD country report Ghana - GHAMOD v1.0

View the latest GHAMOD country report here . This report documents GHAMOD, the SOUTHMOD model developed for Ghana. This work was carried out by the Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER) and the University of Tampere in...

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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...

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  • Data
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SOUTHMOD country report Ethiopia - ETMOD v1.0

View the latest ETMOD country report here . This report documents ETMOD, the SOUTHMOD model developed for Ethiopia. This work was carried out by the Ethiopian Development Research Institute ( EDRI ) in collaboration with the University of Essex and...

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Forecasting revenues from extractive industries: Information asymmetries and other disadvantages of host governments
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by Alan R. Roe February 2018

In the first part of this blog, Alan R. Roe writes about the difficulties governments face in predicting revenues from extractive industries. Read...

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Information asymmetries in extractive industries: What can be done?
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by Alan R. Roe February 2018

In the second part of this blog, Alan R. Roe discusses what is known about the informational failures that pose challenges for governments in...

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Does the Political Resource Curse Affect Public Finance? The Vulnerability of Tax Revenue in Resource-Dependent Countries

Part of Journal Special Issue Fiscal Policy, State Building and Economic Development

  • Taxes
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  • Terms-of-trade shocks
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International tax avoidance and development
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by Ludvig Wier April 2020

Corporate taxation is at the heart of economic development, and cardiac failure looms if international tax reform is not made globally inclusive There...

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SOUTHMOD country report Uganda - UGAMOD v1.4

View the latest UGAMOD country report here . This report documents UGAMOD, the SOUTHMOD model developed for Uganda. The report describes the different tax–benefit policies in place, how the microsimulation model picks up these different provisions...

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SOUTHMOD country report Mozambique - MOZMOD v1.0

View the latest MOZMOD country report here . This report documents MOZMOD, the SOUTHMOD model developed for Mozambique. This work was carried out by the Ministry of Economy and Finance of Mozambique in collaboration with the project partners in the...

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SOUTHMOD country report Zambia - MicroZAMOD v1.0

View the latest MicroZAMOD country report here . This report documents MicroZAMOD, the SOUTHMOD model developed for Zambia. This work was carried out by Zambia Institute for Policy Analysis & Research ( ZIPAR ) in collaboration with the project...

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Climate vulnerability and government resource mobilization in developing countries

There is substantial empirical literature on the impact of climate vulnerability on economic outcomes in developing countries. However, this literature is still weak on the impact of climate vulnerability on tax revenue mobilization. To enrich the...

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SOUTHMOD country report Zambia - MicroZAMOD v2.12

View the latest MicroZAMOD country report here . This report documents MicroZAMOD, the SOUTHMOD model developed for Zambia. This work was carried out by Zambia Institute for Policy Analysis & Research ( ZIPAR ) in collaboration with the project...

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SOUTHMOD country report Ethiopia - ETMOD v2.3

View the latest ETMOD country report here . This report documents ETMOD, the SOUTHMOD model developed for Ethiopia. Since 2020 the Ethiopian national team is based at the University of Insubria (Italy). It includes Adnan A. Shahir and Francesco...

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SOUTHMOD country report Ghana - GHAMOD v2.5

View the latest GHAMOD country report here . This 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...

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