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Forecasting revenues from extractive industries: Information asymmetries and other disadvantages of host governments
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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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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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Revenue data like you’ve never seen it before: Introducing the GRD Explorer
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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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Tax revenues and tax capacity in sub-Saharan Africa
African countries raise lower amounts of tax as a share of national income (GDP) than other countries. Researchers are interested in understanding why...
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International tax avoidance and development
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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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From the editor's desk: Focus on data
This month, a partnership between UNU-WIDER and the Groningen Growth and Development Center (GGDC) brings a new database on economic transformation...
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How global tax dodging costs lives: New research shows a direct link to increased death rates
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Bernadette O'Hare, Kyle McNabb, Stephen G. Hall
May 2021
Tax abuse is an expensive business. According to a recent report by the Tax Justice Network, avoiding or evading tax deprives governments across the...
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Data for better tax policy analysis: Introducing the latest version of the Government Revenue Dataset
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Kyle McNabb
February 2021
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...