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Enlisting Consumers in Tax Enforcement: A Policy Review

Over the last decades, governments worldwide have adopted incentive programmes that enlist consumers in tax enforcement efforts through monetary rewards....

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TaxDev collaborating with Government of Ghana on VAT, customs, and distributional analysis

In these videos our partners from the Revenue Policy Division of the Ghanaian Ministry of Finance explain how our joint work is helping to improve specific areas of tax policy analysis and the poli...

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Ghana publishes major new VAT report

Ghana’s Ministry of Finance has published a major new report – A review of Ghana’s value-added tax (VAT) system....

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How Peru transformed natural resource wealth into local economic development

This blog was originally published on voxdev.org on 4 February 2025 ...

Publication

Electronic Payment Technology and Tax Compliance: Evidence from Uruguay's Financial Inclusion Reform

Does the digitization of transactions in an economy increase tax compliance?...

Publication

The Impact of COVID-19 on Formal Firms: Lessons from Administrative Tax Data

Most low-income countries lack high-frequency firm-level data to monitor the effect of economic shocks in real time....

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Data, Statistics and Tools for Development-focused Public Finance

The increasing complexity of development challenges requires sophisticated data and statistical frameworks to inform public finance decisions and accelerate SDG progress....

2025 Dialogue on Public Finance and the SDGS conference graphic

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9th Zurich Conference on Public Finance in Developing Countries

December 16th-17th 2024, in Zurich, Switzerland...

Publication

Resource windfalls, public expenditures and local economies

This paper uses plausibly exogenous variation in the redistribution of natural resource tax revenues in Peru to study whether transfers to local gov...

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Cash Transfers and the Local Economy: Evidence from Brazil

Cash transfers have been adopted worldwide and credited with significant reductions in poverty....

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Reform or Replace? Three country perspectives on the use of tax incentives for structural transformation

This blog was originally published on odi.org on 23 October 2024 ...

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