Tax Revenue Mobilization Episodes in Emerging Markets and Low-Income Countries : Lessons from a New Dataset /

How do countries mobilize large tax revenue-defined as an average increase in the tax-to-GDP ratio of 0.5 percent per year over three years or more? To answer this question, we build a novel dataset covering 55 episodes of large tax revenue mobilization in low-income countries and emerging markets....

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Autor principal: Akitoby, Bernardin
Outros Autores: Baum, Anja, Hackney, Clay, Harrison, Olamide
Formato: Periódico
Idioma:English
Publicado em: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2018.
coleção:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2018/234
Acesso em linha:Full text available on IMF
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